This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2024, titled “Societal Impacts and the Ethical Use of AI”. The moderator is Aubrie Amstutz, and the two panelists are Patricia McDonough and Alfonso Sánchez-Moya. In this session the panelists reflect on the ethical impacts of AI and how qualitative researchers and linguists alike can address these issues in tech industries. We explore and recognize how linguistics is an integral component of the human evaluation of AI.

Aubrie Amstutz on LinkedIn Patricia McDonough on LinkedIn Alfonso Sánchez-Moya on LinkedIn

YouTube video of this panel

Resources doc mentioned in this panel (readings, orgs, people)

Topics discussed include: – generative AI – ethics – qualitative research – technology – multiculturalism – fairness frameworks – LLMs – chatbots – identity

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Live Linguistics Careercast coming your way on August 16! Join us for part two of our conversation on GenAI and linguistics, this time focusing on Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, Ph.D.’s recent book “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.” And we’ll follow the taping with a networking event in Gather!

Host Laurel Sutton will be joined again by Alicia Beckford Wassink, Katie Swindler, and Aubrie Amstutz to continue the conversation from our live episode at LingFest25, which we released as a podcast on April 22, 2025.

The 90 minute panel will take place in Zoom and will include a Q&A portion. After the panel, we’ll move to Gather for an hour of networking. We invite attendees to mix and mingle, and to have space to process the great conversation.

PANEL DISCUSSION/LIVE PODCAST: 10:00 – 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) GATHER NETWORKING EVENT: 11:30AM – 12:30PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Tickets are $5 for LSA members, and $7 for the general public. Registration can be found on Linguistic Society of America (LSA)’s website:

https://www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_day.asp?date=8/16/2025&eventid=106&mc_cid=d47d2d569b

Big thanks to LSA for sponsoring this event!

Haven’t read the book yet? Pick up a copy or stop by your local bookstore!

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“Software makes me money, but linguistics makes me happy”

Logan Kearsley is an experienced software engineer with a history in the education, solar power, and entertainment industries. He earned a BS in Computer Science and an MA in Linguistics, both from Brigham Young University, and is currently employed as a software engineer at Idaho National Laboratory. He blogs about conlangs and xenolinguistics, and he has a YouTube channel where he reads Beowulf.

Logan Kearsley on LinkedIn

Logan Kearsley’s blog

Logan Kearsley on YouTube (Daily Beowulf)

A Hybrid Approach to Cross-Linguistic Tokenization: Morphology with Statistics

Topics include:

– computational morphology – animal communication – networking – lexicography – conlanging – xenolinguistics – typology

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