- AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’
The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’
- ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender
Bender is a computational linguist at the University of Washington She published the paper in 2020 with fellow computational linguist Alexander Koller The goal was to illustrate what large
- AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’
By George Hammond June 20th 2025 Before Emily Bender and I have looked at a menu, she has dismissed artificial intelligence chatbots as “plagiarism machines” and “synthetic text extruders” Soon after the food arrives, the professor of linguistics adds that the vaunted large language models (LLMs) that underpin them are “born shitty” Since OpenAI launched […]
- AI skeptic Emily Bender warns that ‘the emperor has no . . .
Critique highlights AI hype as autocomplete illusion Computational linguistics expert Emily Bender has criticized the current wave of AI enthusiasm as “the emperor has no clothes,” describing flagship technologies such as ChatGPT as merely glorified autocomplete systems and cautioning that their marketing obscures opaque data practices, energy waste, and ethical risks
- Emily Bender on AI as a ‘stochastic parrot’ - The Student Life
On Nov 12, Emily Bender voiced skepticism about the purported benefits of large language models (LLMs) in her lecture “Don’t Try to Get Answers from a Stochastic Parrot,” the third and final lecture in Harvey Mudd College’s Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series
- An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who . . .
An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more — The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’
- THE AI CON - How to Fight Big Techs Hype and Create the . . .
In The AI Con, Bender and Hanna offer a sharp, witty, and wide-ranging take-down of AI hype across its many forms Bender and Hanna show you how to spot AI hype, how to deconstruct it, and how to expose the power grabs it aims to hide
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