<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk with Drs <a href='https://linguistics.washington.edu/people/emily-m-bender'>Emily M. Bender,</a> Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and <a href='https://www.alex-hanna.com/'>Alex Hanna</a>, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), about their new book, <a href='https://thecon.ai/'>The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want</a>, out May 13, 2025.<ul><li><a href='https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ai-con-virtual-book-launch-tickets-1330295943979'>Virtual Book Launch</a> May 8, 2025, 2-4 PDT</li><li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIQVaSS5Pg'>Bender v. Bubeck</a></li><li><a href='https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/0260cf56-3644-4102-bc2f-dd941ad69ea9'>Inventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century</a></li><li><a href='https://bsky.app/profile/roxanegay.bsky.social/post/3lnl44usnus2m'>Roxane Gay's anti-AI stance</a></li><li><a href='https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636'>The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence </a></li><li><a href='http://www.biolinguagem.com/ling_cog_cult/reddy_1979_conduit_metaphor.pdf'>The Conduit Metaphor</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html'>Kevin Roose's Conversation with Bing</a></li><li><a href='https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417'>Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 </a></li></ul>Intro:<ul><li><a href='https://theworld.org/segments/2025/04/16/uk-rules-the-legal-definition-of-a-woman-under-equality-law-excludes-transgender-women'>UK ruling on the legal definition of "woman"</a></li><li><a href='https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/17/jk-rowling-says-i-love-a-plan-comes-together-supreme-court-result-22927389/'>JK Rowling looking smug</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

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