The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20
05 Feb 2025
1h 2m
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna ยท Technology
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
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.
Episodes
Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13
22 Jan 2025
1h 2m
Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype
30 Dec 2024
1h 0m
Episode 46: AGI Funny Business (Model), with Brian Merchant, December 2 2024
18 Dec 2024
1h 2m
Episode 45: Billionaires, Influencers, and Ed Tech (feat. Adrienne Williams), November 18 2024
26 Nov 2024
1h 0m
Episode 44: OpenAI's Ridiculous 'Reasoning'
13 Nov 2024
1h 0m
Episode 43: AI Companies Gamble with Everyone's Planet (feat. Paris Marx)
31 Oct 2024
1h 1m
Episode 42: Stop Trying to Make 'AI Scientist' Happen, September 30 2024
10 Oct 2024
59m
Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall, September 9 2024
26 Sep 2024
1h 1m
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 40: Elders Need Care, Not 'AI' Surveillance (feat. Clara Berridge), August 19 2024
13 Sep 2024
1h 0m
Episode 39: Newsrooms Pivot to Bullshit (Feat. Sam Cole)
29 Aug 2024
1h 2m
Episode 38: Deflating Zoom's 'Digital Twin,' July 29 2024
14 Aug 2024
1h 2m
Episode 37: Chatbots Aren't Nurses (feat. Michelle Mahon), July 22 2024
02 Aug 2024
1h 0m
Episode 36: About That 'Dangerous Capabilities' Fanfiction (feat. Ali Alkhatib), June 24 2024
19 Jul 2024
1h 2m
Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024
03 Jul 2024
1h 1m
Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx, June 3 2024
20 Jun 2024
1h 3m
Episode 33: Much Ado About 'AI' 'Deception', May 20 2024
05 Jun 2024
1h 0m
Episode 32: A Flood of AI Hell
23 May 2024
57m
Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024
07 May 2024
1h 2m
Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto, April 1 2024
19 Apr 2024
1h 0m
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