Emily Bender, a lead author of the influential 2021 Stochastic Parrots paper, published reflections on the paper and the controversy surrounding it five years after its release. The paper became a major story when Google terminated two of her co-authors (Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell) in disputes linked to the work, which critically examined limitations of large language models. As a domain expert discussing her own published research, Bender's analysis carries substantial weight in AI ethics discourse.