The Case Against AI (Robert Wright, Alex Hanna, and Emily Bender)
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The Case Against AI (Robert Wright, Alex Hanna, and Emily Bender)
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0:29 Alex and Emily’s book, The AI Con4:17 Beyond the AI booster-doomer spectrum9:58 What—and who—is AI actually useful for?18:56 The AI productivity question(s)31:05 Emily: AI won’t take your job, it’ll just make it shi**ier39:20 Stochastic parrots, Chinese rooms, and semantics45:33 Are LLMs really black boxes?56:05 Do AIs “understand” things?59:20 Debating using AIs as experts1:07:45 How “neural” are neural nets, really?
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Alex Hanna and Emily Bender (co-authors, The AI Con). Recorded January 20, 2026.
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