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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 12h

Or here:

www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V...

Text version pp41-45 here:
doi.org/10.54675/KEC...

Digital Learning Week 2025

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 12h

No, I don't "AI" represents a useful or essential skill set. What's needed is the ability to think critically about automation.

You might find some useful arguments in our book (w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social )

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THE AI CON

How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15h

Funny typo, dude. Also, see my previous reply to you.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe check who you're talking to before jumping in with the mansplaining.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19h

Gah. That's both predictable and awful. Also probably contrary to the ACL's Publication Ethics Policy (both any meta reviewer doing that, and the authors' actions).

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

The "AI" research community:

1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024)

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.

aaai.org/aaai-launche...

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Screenshot of AAAI automated review announcement reading:

1. Supplementary First-Stage Reviews: LLM-generated reviews will be included as one component of the
initial review stage, providing an additional perspective alongside traditional human expert evaluations.
2. Discussion Summary Assistance: LLMs will assist the Senior Program Committee (SPC) members by
summarizing reviewer discussions, helping to highlight key points of consensus and disagreement among
human reviewers.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 1d

Just what academic research needs...more AI slop to deal with. Honestly!

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.

aaai.org/aaai-launche...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

6) Wants the rest of us to believe that their work should now be incorporated into everything we do, in every sphere of our lives.

NO THANK YOU.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

5) Is now ready (at least at AAAI) to use synthetic text extruding machines as part of their "scientific" peer review process (AAAI 2025)

aaai.org/aaai-launche...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

4) Pretends that they have to have the ability to push preprints into the world immediately upon drafting (I guess because their value is incredibly perishable; see Bender 2023)

medium.com/@emilymenonb...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

3) Has extremely selective and presumably high prestige conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI) but orients towards arXiv and regularly cites arXiv versions of even published papers

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

2) Plays leaderboard games instead of doing serious evaluation (see Raji et al 2021)

datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/h...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

The "AI" research community:

1) Claims to be building "everything machines", doesn't acknowledge that that means what they're doing is untestable (see Gebru & Torres 2024)

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

I'd say this speaks to the (abysmal) scientific standards of "AI" research.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

For a satirical take, see:

bsky.app/profile/shah...

Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 3d

The future of peer review is here.

Introducing Nature Instant!

We've automated rejection so you can get disappointed faster. Because why wait 6 months for reviewer 2 when you can get roasted by an #AI in seconds?

Here is how it works.

#AI4Science #PeerReview #FictionScience #FiSci #AAAI #ScAISci

Showing a fictitious system for submitting manuscripts called "Nature Instant" showing bot choices for authors to choose from as initial AI-based peer reviewers. The bots are trained on real human reviewer data.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

A careful, measured approach to ensuring quality peer review would not start from the premise that synthetic text extruding machines have anything to add!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

“This pilot represents a careful, measured approach to incorporating new technology into the scientific review process,” said Stephen Smith, AAAI President.

I can see your problem right there, Stephen. You've assumed you have to incorporate the new tech.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket.

aaai.org/aaai-launche...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?

"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...

Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds

A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

www.axios.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

Bernie's staff would be well to pay attention to actual research on this topic, and the historical record on automation, rather than buying into the tech industry's hype in their marketing and paper-shaped objects.

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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 1d

It is the honor of my lifetime to share that @universitypress.cambridge.org will publish the @lingsocam.bsky.social's new Journal of Black Language & Culture. www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation on Black language & culture through a global, diasporic lens.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d

And if you prefer to watch & listen to talks, here's the talk it is based on:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuU-...

Resisting dehumanization in the age of AI - Emily Bender

YouTube video by CogSci: Interdisciplinary Study of the Mind

www.youtube.com

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos of today's Discourse™️, I'd like to circulate the link to this paper again:

doi.org/10.1177/0963...

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cam smith @sexenheimer.bsky.social · 1d

The wild discourse about how being mean to your air fryer is eugenicist reminds me that I have been very slack re promoting this podcast from a few weeks ago with @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social about the actual eugenisms of AI: open.spotify.com/episode/52R2...

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