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Emily M. Bender

Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington

Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, where she has been a faculty member since 2001. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Bender is known for her work on the syntax and semantics of natural language, and has published numerous papers on these topics. She is also a prominent public intellectual, and has written for various media outl...

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Uber for Military Surveillance (with Niamh McIntyre), 2026.03.30Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Apr 16, 202653:44HostData Centers Go Nuclear (with Maia Woluchem and Dr. Livia Garofalo), 2026.03.09Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Mar 31, 202657:12HostData Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Mar 17, 202653:38HostHow the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein), 2026.02.09Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Feb 26, 202652:02HostA Bad Case of Hype-itis, 2026.02.02Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Feb 12, 202656:20HostHell All the Way Down, 2022–2025Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Jan 30, 202640:34HostWrapping Up a Hellish 2025, 2025.12.15Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Jan 13, 202658:29HostDefining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Dec 30, 202555:01HostThis is What Algo-cracy Looks Like, 2025.12.01Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Dec 16, 202559:14HostYou Talked to Workers for This Labor Research... Right? (with Sophie Song), 2025.11.17Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Dec 2, 202553:14HostDrag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Nov 18, 202556:44HostCrunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Oct 30, 202556:20HostBuilding Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Oct 14, 202556:59HostThree Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Oct 1, 202555:42HostThe Robo-Therapist Will See You Now (with Maggie Harrison Dupré), 2025.08.18Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Sep 11, 202555:07HostWinning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Aug 26, 202557:51HostVibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox), 2025.07.21Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Aug 13, 202559:00HostEt Tu, American Federation of Teachers? (with Charles Logan), 2025.07.14Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Jul 30, 20251:00:58HostWhy "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (with Vauhini Vara), 2025.05.08Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Jul 7, 20251:16:52Host"Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000Jun 20, 202559:50Host