Emily M. Bender
Emily M. Bender | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 51–52) |
| Known for | Research on the risks of large language models and ethics of NLP; coining the term 'Stochastic parrot'; research on the use of Head-driven phrase structure grammar in computational linguistics |
| Spouse | Vijay Menon |
| Mother | Sheila Bender |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley and Stanford University |
| Thesis | Syntactic variation and linguistic competence: The case of AAVE copula absence (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tom Wasow Penelope Eckert |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
Emily Menon Bender (born 1973) is an American linguist and professor at the University of Washington where she directs its Computational Linguistics Laboratory. She specializes in computational linguistics and natural language processing. She has published several papers on the risks of large language models and on ethics in natural language processing and co-authored the 2025 book The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.