24. The AI Con with Emily M. Bender

How will AI really shape our everyday lives?Is AI just a cover for data theft and surveillance capitalism?Are we on the brink of machines outsmarting us at everything?Keynote speakerProfessor Emily M. Bender is the co-author of The AI Con: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. She was featured in TIME100's inaugural list of most influential people in AI in 2023, and is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, USA.Emily is in conversation with Professor Carl Rhodes, Professor of Business and Society at UTS Business School and author of Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire and Woke Capitalism, with opening remarks from Professor Sally Cripps, Co-Director of the Human Technology Institute at UTS.CreditsThis episode has been lightly edited.Impact Talks at UTS is produced by UTS Impact Studios, with sound engineering by Alison Zhuang.