Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2025-05-14

Books mentioned on AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking — With Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

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Emily Bender is a computational linguistics professor at the University of Washington. Alex Hanna is the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute.

Emily M. Bender recommended More everything forever by Adam Becker.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   More everything forever

   Adam Becker · at 57:56

   More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity is a non-fiction book by science writer Adam Becker that investigates the ambitious and often controversial technological pursuits championed by Silicon Valley leaders.

   Recommended

   “So, I just want to put in a shout out for um a new book by Adam Becker called More Everything Forever. Um which really goes deep into the connections between the sort of dumerous thought and these more palatable looking sides of what's called effective altruism.”

   Emily M. Bender AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thin… 2025-05-14 Listen at 57:56

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