
AI Snake Oil
What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
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It’s time to differentiate between AI’s real capacities and the overhyped promises of Big Tech, say Princeton University computer science professor Arvind Narayanan and PhD candidate Sayash Kapoor. Just as salesmen once sold snake oil as a “miracle cure” when, in reality, it had no medical benefits, people today are exaggerating AI’s potential. For instance, AI tools cannot give humanity perfect insight into future events — but they can lead to poor decision-making. Narayanan and Kapoor call on you to fight for the AI future you want, rather than accepting the future tech companies are trying to sell you.
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About the Authors
Arvind Narayanan is the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy and a professor of computer science at Princeton. Sayash Kapoor is a PhD candidate with the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.
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