Start Date: 8/16/2025 10:00 AM PDT
End Date: 8/16/2025 12:30 PM PDT
Venue Name: Zoom (for live podcast) and Gather (for networking event)
Event Website: https://www.linguisticscareercast.com/
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Linguistics Careercast
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Sponsor: Linguistic Society of America
Join us for part 2 of our conversation on GenAI with host Laurel Sutton and guests Alicia Beckford Wassink, Aubrie Amstutz, and Katie Swindler! In this live taping of Linguistics Careercast, our guests will be discussing Emily Bender and Alex Hanna’s recent book The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. The panel will be followed by a networking event in the proximity chat platform Gather.
PANEL DISCUSSION: 10:00 - 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
GATHER NETWORKING EVENT: 11:30AM - 12:30PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Back in April, our panel covered topics like AI bias, challenges in training data curation, and implications of Gen AI on online language data collection. (If you missed this episode, you can catch up via podcast or YouTube.) One of our goals for the original panel was to put on display what linguists are grappling with when they think about (and work with) GenAI. Discussing The AI Con, authored by linguist Emily Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna, gives us another frame to continue the conversation!
The 90 minute panel will take place in Zoom and will include a Q&A portion. After the panel, we’ll move to Gather for an hour of networking. We invite attendees to mix and mingle, and to have space to process the great conversation.
Haven’t read the book yet? Pick up a copy at https://thecon.ai/ or your local bookstore!
