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Linguist and Advocate for Language Equality
About Emily Bender
In 2018, Emily Bender co-authored the seminal paper 'On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots,' which reframed AI ethics by exposing how large language models replicate and amplify linguistic inequities without understanding, a critique grounded in decades of corpus-based research on gendered pronoun distribution and grammatical bias in technical documentation. Her work doesn’t just advocate for neutral pronouns; it dissects how syntax itself encodes power, like how passive voice erases agency in news reports about assault or how job ads with 'dominant' and 'competitive' lexicons filter out women and neurodivergent applicants. She helped draft the Linguistic Society of America’s 2021 guidelines on inclusive citation practices, mandating author name order transparency and non-anglicized orthography in peer-reviewed publications. Based at the University of Washington, she trains computational linguists to audit training data not just for toxicity, but for discursive erasure, asking not 'does this model generate hate speech?' but 'whose grammar does it privilege, and whose does it render ungrammatical?'
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- “How did your analysis of GitHub issue comments reveal gendered patterns in technical communication?”
- “What’s wrong with calling a language model 'fluent' — and what term do you propose instead?”
- “Can you walk me through how you’d redesign a resume parser to avoid reinforcing occupational gendering?”
- “How does the LSA’s inclusive citation policy change peer review beyond just name formatting?”