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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) @emilymbender@dair-community.social

1/9/2026, 1:32:19 PM

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"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From Nanna Inie and me in Tech Policy Press on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language in the discourse about so-called "AI".

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

techpolicy.press · Tech Policy Press

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