The AI Con: In Conversation with Professor Emily M Bender
Event description
What is the real impact of AI on our future day-to-day existence? Are tech corporations touting AI's wonders to justify data theft, motivate surveillance capitalism, and replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines? Are we about to enter an age where computers are better than humans at everything?
Join us for an exclusive Sydney talk with one of the world's best-known AI insiders-turned-critics, University of Washington's Professor Emily M. Bender, co-author of The AI Con and featured in TIME100's inaugural list of most influential people in AI in 2023, as she shares insights from her latest book, including how the hype around these technologies is impacting our jobs, health, society and the environment.
Emily will be 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.
"Packed with real-world examples, pithy arguments and expert insights, The AI Con arms you to spot AI hype in all its guises, expose the exploitation and power-grabs it aims to hide, and push back against it at work and in your daily life."
5.30pm Registration
6.00pm Event commences
7.00pm Conversation concludes - authors available for book signings
About the speakers
Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. Her work, including the touchstone ‘Stochastic Parrots’ paper, brings a linguistic perspective to how large language models work and why the illusion they produce is so compelling. |
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Carl Rhodes is Professor of Business and Society and former Dean at UTS Business School. Carl's influential research explores the relationship between liberal democracy and contemporary capitalism with a view to reformulating the role of business in society so prosperity can be shared by all. |
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This event is supported by UTS Business School and Gleebooks.
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