AI SNAKE OIL

From two of TIME s 100 Most Influential People in AI what you need to know about AI and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world You re not alone AI is everywhere and few things are surrounded by so much hype misinformation and misunderstanding In AI Snake Oil computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn t where it might be useful or harmful and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil products that don t work and probably never will While acknowledging the potential of some AI such as ChatGPT AI Snake Oil uncovers rampant misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it s being built marketed and used in areas such as education medicine hiring banking insurance and criminal justice The book explains the crucial differences between types of AI why organizations are falling for AI snake oil why AI can t fix social media why AI isn t an existential risk and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI th