“In tech, I feel like I’m giving a sociolinguistics 101 course once a month”
This episode is a recording of a special live episode of the Linguistics Careercast podcast.
Our panel of linguists discusses how artificial intelligence (especially Gen AI) is impacting linguistics as a field. We’ll cover topics like AI bias, challenges in training data curation, and implications of GenAI on online language data collection. These are conversations that linguists are having behind the scenes about the future of this changing technical landscape.
The panel was held on April 12, 2025, during LingFest, a part of LingComm 2025
Panelists:
Aubrie Amstutz, Responsible AI Research Scientist at Grid Dynamics
Alicia Beckford Wassink, Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington
Katie Swindler, Content Management for Generative AI at Mother Tongue AI
Producer:
Alex Johnston, MLC Director, Georgetown University
Topics include
– generative AI
– large language models (LLM)
– ethics
– trust and safety
– minoritized dialects
– language bias
– automatic speech recognition
– discourse analysis
– product policy
