Kirkus calls THE AI CON "a refreshingly contrarian take on AI and the clouds of hyperbole surrounding it."

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The bots probably aren’t going to kill you, but they’re probably not going to save you, either.

@Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

Starting a podcast called Too Many Tech Bros, which has the same premise of Sooo Many White Guys, but we talk about tech and AI

Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (with @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)) It's out for release on May 13, 2025!

THE AI CON

THE AI CON

How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

New open-access paper by Ellen Berrey, Nathan Kim, Kristen Bass, and me over at Socius -- We analyzed over 16,000 news articles using a machine-assisted system, yielding a dataset of 5,553 higher ed protest events, and university and police responses. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231241297447

When Elon bought Twitter, we saw an immense migration from that platform to here. When Trump got elected, I've seen nothing but increases to BlueSky. The Fediverse really missed a window.