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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

By Emily M. Bender and Alex HannaTechnology, News, Tech NewsEnglish

New episode every 2 weeks, latest 16 days ago, since May 2023

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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.

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Episodes 90 episodes in the feed

  1. My Tech Workers Have Unionized, 2026.10.05

    Episode 8753 min

  2. Big Tech Colon-AI-lism, 2026.09.15

    Episode 8655 min

  3. Manifesting the End of Tech Bro Manifestos, 2026.09.08

    Episode 8556 min

  4. Working 9 to Hype, 2026.08.10

    Episode 8454 min

  5. Rumors of a Singularity Have Been Grossly Exaggerated, 2026.08.03

    Episode 8354 min

  6. Who's Responsible for "Responsible AI"?, 2026.07.06

    Episode 8258 min

  7. State of Emergency, 2026.06.29

    Episode 8155 min

  8. When the Bubble Bursts (with Matt Scherer), 2026.06.01

    Episode 8053 min

  9. Beware the 20x Engineer, 2026.05.11

    Episode 7953 min

  10. Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04

    Episode 781 h 3 min

Show 40 older episodes

  1. LIVE: Anthropic Imagines a Very Special Boy, 2026.04.30

    1 h 1 min

  2. Hotter Than (AI) Hell, 2026.04.20

    Episode 7755 min

  3. There's No Ghost in the Machine (with Carmen Maria Machado), 2026.04.13

    Episode 7653 min

  4. Uber for Military Surveillance (with Niamh McIntyre), 2026.03.30

    Episode 7553 min

  5. Data Centers Go Nuclear (with Maia Woluchem and Dr. Livia Garofalo), 2026.03.09

    Episode 7457 min

  6. Data Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02

    Episode 7353 min

  7. How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein), 2026.02.09

    Episode 7252 min

  8. A Bad Case of Hype-itis, 2026.02.02

    Episode 7156 min

  9. Hell All the Way Down, 2022–2025

    Bonus40 min

  10. Wrapping Up a Hellish 2025, 2025.12.15

    Episode 7058 min

  11. Defining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08

    Episode 6955 min

  12. This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like, 2025.12.01

    Episode 6859 min

  13. You Talked to Workers for This Labor Research... Right? (with Sophie Song), 2025.11.17

    Episode 6753 min

  14. Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27

    Episode 6656 min

  15. Crunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20

    Episode 6556 min

  16. Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29

    Episode 6456 min

  17. Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19

    Episode 6355 min

  18. The Robo-Therapist Will See You Now (with Maggie Harrison Dupré), 2025.08.18

    Episode 6255 min

  19. Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04

    Episode 6157 min

  20. Vibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox), 2025.07.21

    Episode 6059 min

  21. Et Tu, American Federation of Teachers? (with Charles Logan), 2025.07.14

    Episode 591 h 0 min

  22. Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (with Vauhini Vara), 2025.05.08

    1 h 16 min

  23. "Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26

    Episode 5859 min

  24. The "AI"-Enabled Immigration Panopticon (with Petra Molnar), 2025.05.05

    Episode 571 h 1 min

  25. AGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21

    Episode 561 h 5 min

  26. AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14

    Episode 551 h 0 min

  27. "AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31

    Episode 541 h 3 min

  28. Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17

    Episode 531 h 0 min

  29. The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency', 2025.03.03

    Episode 521 h 0 min

  30. The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24

    Episode 511 h 0 min

  31. Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27

    Episode 5046 min

  32. The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20

    Episode 491 h 2 min

  33. Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13

    Episode 481 h 2 min

  34. Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype, December 9 2024

    Episode 471 h 0 min

  35. Episode 46: AGI Funny Business (Model), with Brian Merchant, December 2 2024

    Episode 461 h 2 min

  36. Episode 45: Billionaires, Influencers, and Ed Tech (feat. Adrienne Williams), November 18 2024

    Episode 451 h 0 min

  37. Episode 44: OpenAI's Ridiculous 'Reasoning', October 28 2024

    Episode 441 h 0 min

  38. Episode 43: AI Companies Gamble with Everyone's Planet (feat. Paris Marx), October 21 2024

    Episode 431 h 1 min

  39. Episode 42: Stop Trying to Make 'AI Scientist' Happen, September 30 2024

    Episode 4259 min

  40. Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall, September 9 2024

    Episode 411 h 1 min

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