Emily M. Bender is a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington (Seattle), where she has been on the faculty since 2003. She is also adjunct faculty in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School at the University of Washington. In 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2023 she was included in TIME’s inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence. She is president of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bender’s public scholarship is focused on helping broad audiences and policymakers understand the technology that is marketed as “artificial intelligence” and on cutting through the hype around AI. Because so much of the technology in question involves language processing, her perspective has been crucial in the ongoing conversation around this technology: as a linguist, she brings knowledge of how language works and an understanding of how people process and react to language. Thanks to Bender’s ability to articulate these key points in a way that is accessible and impactful for non-specialist audiences, she has become a go-to voice for the media, appearing in the media on average over twice a week over the past year. She also brings her message directly to the public through her podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, co-hosted with sociologist Dr. Alex Hanna.