Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
A podcast by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

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50 Episodes
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Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27
Published: 2/19/2025 -
The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20
Published: 2/5/2025 -
Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13
Published: 1/22/2025 -
Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype, December 9 2024
Published: 12/30/2024 -
Episode 46: AGI Funny Business (Model), with Brian Merchant, December 2 2024
Published: 12/18/2024 -
Episode 45: Billionaires, Influencers, and Ed Tech (feat. Adrienne Williams), November 18 2024
Published: 11/26/2024 -
Episode 44: OpenAI's Ridiculous 'Reasoning', October 28 2024
Published: 11/13/2024 -
Episode 43: AI Companies Gamble with Everyone's Planet (feat. Paris Marx), October 21 2024
Published: 10/31/2024 -
Episode 42: Stop Trying to Make 'AI Scientist' Happen, September 30 2024
Published: 10/10/2024 -
Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall, September 9 2024
Published: 9/26/2024 -
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 40: Elders Need Care, Not 'AI' Surveillance (feat. Clara Berridge), August 19 2024
Published: 9/13/2024 -
Episode 39: Newsrooms Pivot to Bullshit (feat. Sam Cole), Aug 5 2024
Published: 8/29/2024 -
Episode 38: Deflating Zoom's 'Digital Twin,' July 29 2024
Published: 8/14/2024 -
Episode 37: Chatbots Aren't Nurses (feat. Michelle Mahon), July 22 2024
Published: 8/2/2024 -
Episode 36: About That 'Dangerous Capabilities' Fanfiction (feat. Ali Alkhatib), June 24 2024
Published: 7/19/2024 -
Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024
Published: 7/3/2024 -
Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx, June 3 2024
Published: 6/20/2024 -
Episode 33: Much Ado About 'AI' 'Deception', May 20 2024
Published: 6/5/2024 -
Episode 32: A Flood of AI Hell, April 29 2024
Published: 5/23/2024 -
Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024
Published: 5/7/2024
Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.