Emily M.Bender and Alex Hanna have been leading the charge against "AI", helping us understand it for the con that it is, and how AI companies are turning to health, education, and other social realms to try to recover their costs. In this episode we discuss LLMs vs. what the AI (and AGI) con is -- who benefits, and who loses -- and much more. Recorded July 15, 2025. Released July 28, 2025. The AI Con<a href="https://thecon.ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thecon.ai/</a> Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000<a href="https://www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/</a> <a href="https://tisjune.github.io/papers/aarhus_2025_skills.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The predatory fantasy of worker empowerment in AI marketing</a>Justine Zhang, Su Lin Blodgett, Nina MarklAI x Crisis: Tracing New Directions Beyond Deployment and Use workshop, Aarhus 2025. AI isn’t replacing student writing – but it is reshaping it<a href="https://theconversation.com/ai-isnt-replacing-student-writing-but-it-is-reshaping-it-254878" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/ai-isnt-replacing-student-writing-but-it-is-reshaping-it-254878</a> Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 </a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Dopaminergic, with Rohit Revi

Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers, and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see thedatafix.net for more details and show notes. Thank you so much for listening.&nbsp;Cover art by Oona Ode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.