‘AI Snake Oil’: A conversation with Princeton AI experts Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor [Video]

In the two years since ChatGPT brought artificial intelligence out of science fiction and into the public conversation, AI has been both wildly hyped and harshly vilified.

The acclaimed new book “AI Snake Oil” by Princeton AI scholars Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor offers readers a smart new perspective, with surprising insights on what should excite people most, and what should alarm us.

Narayanan is a professor of computer science and the director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). Kapoor is a former Facebook engineer now completing a Ph.D. in computer science at Princeton.

“AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference,” has made Top 10 and year-end recommendation lists from Publishers Weekly, Bloomberg, USA Today and others. It is published by Princeton University Press.

We asked Narayanan and Kapoor to distill some of the book’s key messages …