{"id":53178,"date":"2025-08-05T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=53178"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:46:56","slug":"yeah-nah-pasaran-258-w-emily-m-bender-alex-hanna-on-the-ai-con-august-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=53178","title":{"rendered":"Yeah Nah Pasaran #259 w Emily M Bender & Alex Hanna on The AI Con : August 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran!<\/a><\/em> on 3CR we talk to Emily M Bender<\/a> [Bluesky<\/a>] & Alex Hanna<\/a> [Bluesky<\/a>]. Emily<\/a> and Alex<\/a> are previous guests of the show, co-host the podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000<\/a> and have recently co-authored The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech\u2019s Hype and Create the Future We Want<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also<\/em> : Is AI a con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist<\/a>, Luke Munn, The Conversation, June 24, 2025 \/\/\/ The AI Con by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna review \u2013 debunking myths of the AI revolution<\/a>, Steven Poole, The Guardian, May 19, 2025 \/\/\/ AI. Don’t believe the hype<\/a>, Late Night Live (ABC), July 3, 2025 | The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI<\/a>, Luke O’Brien, Mother Jones, May-June 2025 \/\/\/ Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI<\/a> (Karen Hao, Penguin Random House, 2025).<\/p>\n

4.30pm, August 7, 2025 \/\/\/ 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> and other platforms after broadcast.
\n\u2022 We also have a Facebook page<\/a> for the show, which you\u2019re invited to \u2018Like\u2019 and to \u2018Follow\u2019, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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