AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
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Two of AI's most vociferous critics join us for a discussion of the technology's weaknesses and liabilities and a debate on the finer points of their arguments. We'll talk about it all after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. We're joined today by the authors of the AI Con. Professor Emily M.
Bender is here. She's a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington. Emily, welcome. I'm glad to be here. Thank you for having us on your show.
My pleasure. And we're also joined by Alex Hanna, the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. Alex, welcome. Thanks for having us, Alex. Always good to have another Alex on the show.
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