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Are Our Fears About Artificial Intelligence Unfounded & How Should Legislators Protect Us: A Conversation with Prof. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna

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Professor Emily M. Bender, and sociologist Dr. Alex Hanna discuss the impact of Artificial Intelligence and whether our government can protect us from its potential harms via legislation, and regulation. We also discuss the sociological harms of AI, as well as the environmental impact. Lastly, Professor Bender discusses the reaction to a paper she presented in 2021, titled "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜," after the paper went viral.

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Stochastic Parrot (Wiki)

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜

The Shadow Report: Shadow Report to the US Senate AI Policy Roadmap


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