Emily Menon Bender (born 1973) is an American linguist who is a professor at the University of Washington.
[17] Bender has published research papers on the linguistic structures of Japanese, Chintang, Mandarin, Wambaya, American Sign Language and English.
[citation needed] In 2021, Bender presented a paper, "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
[22] The paper concerned ethical issues in building natural language processing systems using machine learning from large text corpora.
[23] Since then, she has invested efforts to popularize AI ethics and has taken a stand against hype over large language models.