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

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50 Episodes
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Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto, April 1 2024
Published: 4/19/2024 -
Episode 29: How LLMs Are Breaking the News (feat. Karen Hao), March 25 2024
Published: 4/3/2024 -
Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects, March 4 2024
Published: 3/13/2024 -
Episode 27: Asimov's Laws vs. 'AI' Death-Making (w/ Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders), February 19 2024
Published: 2/29/2024 -
Episode 26: Universities Anxiously Buy in to the Hype (feat. Chris Gilliard), February 5 2024
Published: 2/15/2024 -
Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job, January 22 2024
Published: 2/1/2024 -
Episode 24: AI Won't Solve Structural Inequality (feat. Kerry McInerney & Eleanor Drage), January 8 2024
Published: 1/17/2024 -
Episode 23: AI Hell Freezes Over, December 22 2023
Published: 1/10/2024 -
Episode 22: Congressional 'AI' Hearings Say More about Lawmakers (feat. Justin Hendrix), December 18 2023
Published: 1/3/2024 -
Episode 21: The True Meaning of 'Open Source' (feat. Sarah West and Andreas Liesenfeld), November 20 2023
Published: 11/30/2023 -
Episode 20: Let's Do the Time Warp! (to the "Founding" of "Artificial Intelligence"), November 6 2023
Published: 11/21/2023 -
Episode 19: The Murky Climate and Environmental Impact of Large Language Models, November 6 2023
Published: 11/8/2023 -
Episode 18: Rumors of Artificial General Intelligence Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, October 23 2023
Published: 10/31/2023 -
Episode 17: Back to School with AI Hype in Education (feat. Haley Lepp), September 22 2023
Published: 10/4/2023 -
Episode 16: Med-PaLM or Facepalm? A Second Opinion On LLMs In Healthcare (feat. Roxana Daneshjou), August 28, 2023
Published: 9/28/2023 -
Episode 15: The White House And Big Tech Dance The Self-Regulation Tango, August 11 2023
Published: 9/20/2023 -
Episode 14: Henry Kissinger, Machines of War, and the Age of Military AI Hype (feat. Lucy Suchman), July 21 2023
Published: 9/13/2023 -
Episode 13: Beware The Robo-Therapist (feat. Hannah Zeavin), June 8 2023
Published: 9/7/2023 -
Episode 12: It's All Hell, May 5 2023
Published: 8/29/2023 -
Episode 11: A GPT-4 Fanfiction Novella, April 7 2023
Published: 8/24/2023
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.