Book Tour: The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

Presented by Emily

Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on multilingual grammar engineering, computational semantics, and the broader societal impacts of language technology.

Abstract

A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world.