Show notes for Episode 51

Here are the show notes for Episode 51, in which Dan and (new Lexis team member) Raj talk to Professor Emily M. Bender of the University of Washington about:

Emily M. Bender’s University of Washington page: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/ 

A great interview from 2023: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

Time Magazine on the ‘machine-learning myth buster’: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6308275/emily-m-bender/ 

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast: https://www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/

Emily’s book recommendations: 

‘Babel’, R.F. Kuang: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/babel-or-the-necessity-of-violence-an-arcane-history-of-the-oxford-translators-revolution-r-f-kuang/6627642?ean=9780008501853 

‘A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-memory-called-empire-winner-of-the-hugo-award-for-best-novel-arkady-martine/219166?ean=9781529001594 

Other links from the interview

Jess Dodge’s work: https://jessedodge.github.io/ 

Batya Friedman & Helen Nissenbaum, Bias in Computer Systems (1996): https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publications/bias-in-computer-systems 

Some further reading: 

Police worried 101 call bot would struggle with 'Brummie' accents

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68466369

BBC News - 'Journalists are feeding the AI hype machine'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68488924 

Bias against African American English 

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00742 

Register article: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/11/ai_models_exhibit_racism_based/ 

An Al-Jazeera opinion piece about AI and borders: 

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/4/20/ban-racist-and-lethal-ai-from-europes-borders 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys