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Recent faculty books from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ include those from linguistics, Slavic languages and literature and French. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News spoke with the authors of four publications to learn more about their work. Scrutinizing and confronting AI hype Emily M. Bender, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor of linguistics, co-authored “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Wantâ€� with Alex Hanna, the director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. The book looks at the the…

When you hear a cover of a favorite song, comparisons are inevitable. There are obvious similarities – the lyrics, the melody – but there are also enough differences to make each version unique. Those deviations say more than you might expect.     Maya Angela Smith, associate of professor of French at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, introduces translation studies through the lens of the song “Ne Me Quitte Pas.â€� Originally recorded by Jacques Brel — a French-speaking Belgian man —…