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This audiobook, narrated by Landon Woodson, provides essential insights into AI—equipping you to navigate misleading AI claims and products.
It includes a bonus track featuring an enlightening discussion hosted by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.
Are you puzzled by AI and concerned about its implications for your future and the world at large? You’re not alone. AI has infiltrated various aspects of life, and it is often clouded by excessive hype, misinformation, and confusion. In *AI Snake Oil*, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor clarify the complexities surrounding AI, explaining how it functions, why it sometimes fails, its potential benefits and dangers, and how to recognize when companies are leveraging AI exaggerations to market ineffective products—what they term “AI snake oil.”
While they acknowledge the promise of certain AI technologies like ChatGPT, *AI Snake Oil* shines a light on the widespread falsehoods regarding AI’s capabilities and discusses the significant harm it can already inflict in sectors such as education, healthcare, recruitment, finance, insurance, and criminal justice. The book delineates the key differences among various AI types, reasons organizations fall for AI hype, misconceptions surrounding AI’s impact on social media, the reality of AI not posing an existential threat, and the greater concern of human actions influenced by AI rather than the technology itself. Additionally, it warns of the risks presented by a future where AI remains under the dominion of largely unaccountable tech giants.
By exposing the limitations and genuine dangers of AI, *AI Snake Oil* empowers you to make informed choices about how and when to engage with AI in both professional and personal settings.
