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Emily M. Bender
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Emily M. Bender

Co-authored Stochastic Parrots; coined the framing of LLMs as pattern-matchers.

b. 1973United StatesProfessor of Linguistics, University of Washington
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  1. 2003–now23 yrsUniversity of WashingtonProfessor of Linguistics

1 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first

  1. 2025The AI Con

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