Artificial Atlas

Who is betting on what in AI, and against whom.

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Emily M. Bender

Researcher

Linguist and co-author of the 'stochastic parrots' paper and, in 2025, The AI Con. Her position is not a rival camp but a refusal of the premise: language models model text, not understanding, and the field's claims outrun its evidence.

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    University of Washington, Professor of linguistics
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    Sources Emily M. Bender Wikipedia 2026-09-05 · The AI Con Wikipedia 2026-09-05