Arvind Narayanan
Professor of computer science · Princeton
Cuts through AI marketing. AI Snake Oil is a calm test of which claims are real, which are premature, and which cannot work as sold.
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How data is gathered, whose lives it represents, and whether it can be trusted.Whether models do what they claim, how they fail, and how we know.Attacks on and through AI systems: injection, jailbreaks, cyber offense.Whether people can see, contest, and hold to account what a system does.When software acts across time and tools, faster than people can intervene.The physical and operational stack models run on — clouds, chips, outages.Energy, water, minerals, and the living world that compute depends on.
Gary Marcus
Scientist and writer
A persistent public critic of overclaiming. Useful when a group needs permission to ask 'does this actually work?'