Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're joined by special guests and talk about everything, from machine consciousness to science fiction, to political economy to art made by machines.

Episodes

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My Tech Workers Have Unionized, 2026.10.05

14 Oct 2026 · 53 min

Big Tech Colon-AI-lism, 2026.09.15

30 Sept 2026 · 55 min

Manifesting the End of Tech Bro Manifestos, 2026.09.08

17 Sept 2026 · 56 min

Working 9 to Hype, 2026.08.10

2 Sept 2026 · 54 min

Rumors of a Singularity Have Been Grossly Exaggerated, 2026.08.03

19 Aug 2026 · 54 min

Who's Responsible for "Responsible AI"?, 2026.07.06

4 Aug 2026 · 58 min

State of Emergency, 2026.06.29

23 Jul 2026 · 55 min

When the Bubble Bursts (with Matt Scherer), 2026.06.01

7 Jul 2026 · 53 min

Beware the 20x Engineer, 2026.05.11

24 Jun 2026 · 53 min

Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04

9 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m

LIVE: Anthropic Imagines a Very Special Boy, 2026.04.30

26 May 2026 · 1h 1m

Hotter Than (AI) Hell, 2026.04.20

13 May 2026 · 55 min

There's No Ghost in the Machine (with Carmen Maria Machado), 2026.04.13

28 Apr 2026 · 53 min

Uber for Military Surveillance (with Niamh McIntyre), 2026.03.30

16 Apr 2026 · 53 min

Data Centers Go Nuclear (with Maia Woluchem and Dr. Livia Garofalo), 2026.03.09

31 Mar 2026 · 57 min

Data Centers in Space!? (with Dr. Adam Becker), 2026.03.02

17 Mar 2026 · 53 min

How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI (with Naomi Klein), 2026.02.09

26 Feb 2026 · 52 min

A Bad Case of Hype-itis, 2026.02.02

12 Feb 2026 · 56 min

Hell All the Way Down, 2022–2025

30 Jan 2026 · 40 min

Wrapping Up a Hellish 2025, 2025.12.15

13 Jan 2026 · 58 min

Defining AGI: Oops! All Eugenics, 2025.12.08

30 Dec 2025 · 55 min

This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like, 2025.12.01

16 Dec 2025 · 59 min

You Talked to Workers for This Labor Research... Right? (with Sophie Song), 2025.11.17

2 Dec 2025 · 53 min

Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27

18 Nov 2025 · 56 min

Crunching the Numbers (with Decca Muldowney), 2025.10.20

30 Oct 2025 · 56 min

Building Worlds Through Better Reading (with Reo Eveleth), 2025.09.29

14 Oct 2025 · 56 min

Three Years of Ridicule as Praxis, 2025.09.19

1 Oct 2025 · 55 min

The Robo-Therapist Will See You Now (with Maggie Harrison Dupré), 2025.08.18

11 Sept 2025 · 55 min

Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04

26 Aug 2025 · 57 min

Vibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox), 2025.07.21

13 Aug 2025 · 59 min

Et Tu, American Federation of Teachers? (with Charles Logan), 2025.07.14

30 Jul 2025 · 1h 0m

Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (with Vauhini Vara), 2025.05.08

7 Jul 2025 · 1h 16m

"Like Magic Intelligence in the Cloud", 2025.05.26

20 Jun 2025 · 59 min

The "AI"-Enabled Immigration Panopticon (with Petra Molnar), 2025.05.05

28 May 2025 · 1h 1m

AGI: "Imminent", "Inevitable", and Inane, 2025.04.21

14 May 2025 · 1h 5m

AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14

30 Apr 2025 · 1h 0m

"AI" Agents, A Single Point of Failure (with Margaret Mitchell), 2025.03.31

17 Apr 2025 · 1h 3m

Linguists Versus 'AI' Speech Analysis (with Nicole Holliday), 2025.03.17

2 Apr 2025 · 1h 0m

The Anti-Bookclub Tackles 'Superagency', 2025.03.03

19 Mar 2025 · 1h 0m

The War on Knowledge (with Raina Bloom), 2025.02.24

5 Mar 2025 · 1h 0m

Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese), 2025.01.27

19 Feb 2025 · 46 min

The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20

5 Feb 2025 · 1h 2m

Sam Altman's Fever Dream, 2025.01.13

22 Jan 2025 · 1h 2m

Episode 47: Hell is Other People's AI Hype, December 9 2024

30 Dec 2024 · 1h 0m

Episode 46: AGI Funny Business (Model), with Brian Merchant, December 2 2024

18 Dec 2024 · 1h 2m

Episode 45: Billionaires, Influencers, and Ed Tech (feat. Adrienne Williams), November 18 2024

26 Nov 2024 · 1h 0m

Episode 44: OpenAI's Ridiculous 'Reasoning', October 28 2024

13 Nov 2024 · 1h 0m

Episode 43: AI Companies Gamble with Everyone's Planet (feat. Paris Marx), October 21 2024

31 Oct 2024 · 1h 1m

Episode 42: Stop Trying to Make 'AI Scientist' Happen, September 30 2024

10 Oct 2024 · 59 min

Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall, September 9 2024

26 Sept 2024 · 1h 1m

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