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AI Snake Oil

Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan

What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference

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Authors

The writers behind this newsletter.

  • Sayash Kapoor

    CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI. Currently writing a book on AI Snake Oil: http://aisnakeoil.com

  • Arvind Narayanan
  • Arvind Narayanan
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