Archive - AI Snake Oil

FAQ about the book and our writing process

What's in the book and how we wrote it

Oct 4 •

Arvind Narayanan

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September 2024

Can AI automate computational reproducibility?

A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science

Sep 18 •

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Arvind Narayanan

Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online

The book will be published on September 24

Sep 10 •

Arvind Narayanan

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August 2024

AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.

Turning models into products runs into five challenges

Aug 19 •

Arvind Narayanan

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July 2024

AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy

How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification

Jul 26 •

Arvind Narayanan

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New paper: AI agents that matter

Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation

Jul 3 •

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Arvind Narayanan

June 2024

AI scaling myths

Scaling will run out. The question is when.

Jun 27 •

Arvind Narayanan

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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle

How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype

Jun 3 •

Arvind Narayanan

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April 2024

AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves.

What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents

Apr 30 •

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Arvind Narayanan

AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder

What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference

Apr 10 •

Arvind Narayanan

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Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time

That’s what makes it worthwhile

Apr 3 •

Arvind Narayanan

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March 2024

AI safety is not a model property

Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things

Mar 12 •

Arvind Narayanan

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