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Teaching in Higher Ed · 2025-06-26 · 41 min · 7,241 words

The AI Con

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Today on episode number 576, The AI Con, How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. Welcome to this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. I'm Bonnie Stahoviak and this is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning.

We also share ways to improve our productivity approaches so we can have more peace in our lives and be even. more present for our students. It's an absolute honor today to get to speak to the authors of The AI Con, How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want on today's episode. Dr. Emily M.

Bender is professor of linguistics at the University of Washington, where she's also the faculty director of the computational Linguistics Masters of Science program, an affiliate faculty in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School. In 2023, she was listed in the inaugural Time 100 list of the most influential people in AI. She is frequently consulted by policymakers from municipal officials to the federal government to the United Nations for insight into how to understand. so-called AI technologies.

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