Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can鈥檛, and How to Tell the Difference

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  • Landon Woodson

This audiobook narrated by Landon Woodson reveals what you need to know about AI鈥攁nd how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products
Comes with a bonus track featuring an illuminating discussion by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor


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Published:
Sep 24, 2024
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2024
Runtime:
9 hours 58 minutes
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Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
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Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You鈥檙e not alone. AI is everywhere鈥攁nd 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, why it often doesn鈥檛, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil鈥攑roducts that don鈥檛 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鈥檚 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鈥檛 fix social media, why AI isn鈥檛 an existential risk, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. The book also warns of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies.

By revealing AI鈥檚 limits and real risks, AI Snake Oil will help you make better decisions about whether and how to use AI at work and home.

Awards and Recognition

  • A Publishers Weekly Fall Science Preview Top 10
  • A Nature Best Book of the Year
  • A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year