Join us for an evening with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, authors of The AI Con, in conversation with Kathryn Campbell-Kibler at 7pm on Tuesday, June 5 at WOSU's Ross Community Studio.
The AI Con: How To Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create The Future We Want is a smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world.
This event is free to attend but we do request that you RSVP here.
Dr. Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington where she is also the Faculty Director of the Computational Linguistics Master of Science program and affiliate faculty in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School. In 2023, she was included in the inaugural Time 100 list of the most influential people in AI. She is frequently consulted by policymakers, from municipal officials to the federal government to the United Nations, for insight into how to understand so-called AI technologies.
Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and a Lecturer in the School of Information at the University of California Berkeley. She is an outspoken critic of the tech industry, a proponent of community-based uses of technology, and a highly sought-after speaker and expert who has been featured across the media, including articles in the Washington Post, Financial Times, The Atlantic, and Time.
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. She received her BA in linguistics and computer science and MA in linguistics from the University of Chicago, and her PhD in linguistics from Stanford University. Her research explores cognitive models for indexically meaningful variation, asking how our minds allow us to use linguistic variation to manage our social business. She is the outreach director for the "the Pod", a working linguistics lab embedded on the floor of the science museum COSI and the director of See Your Speech, an interactive website that gives users visual displays based on acoustic analyses of their own speech.
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