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AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Summary
AI Snake Oil is the clear-eyed hype filter in the Books For AI cluster. Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor separate useful AI from prediction theatre, marketing claims, weak evidence, and systems that sound more capable than they are. It is especially useful for readers who need to think about AI without either panic or boosterism.
“Not all AI is the same, and not every claim made in its name deserves the same level of trust.”
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It belongs on AI kids, AI jobs, and AI literacy pages because it gives readers a way to ask better questions: what kind of AI is this, what evidence supports it, and who benefits from believing the claim?
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