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Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of Washington, where she has been on the faculty since 2003. Her research interests include  multilingual grammar engineering, computational semantics, and the societal impacts of language technology.  She is the co-author of recent influential papers such as "Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data" (ACL 2020) and "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜" (FAcct 2021) and the book (with sociologist Dr. Alex Hanna)  The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want.