AI Snake Oil

Event Details

Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, who are recognized by Time magazine as two of the 100 most influential experts in AI, cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn't, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil—products that don't work, and probably never will.

On November 8, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor will meet online with the public, joined by Thomas Luo, Founding Partner of GenAI Assembling, for an in-depth discussion on AI's real value and potential risks in today's society, focusing particularly on how to recognize and avoid being misled by false advertising in an increasingly complex information landscape.

Speakers

Arvind Narayanan
Professor of Computer Science & Director of Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. He studies the societal impact of digital technologies, especially artificial intelligence, and has co-authored a textbook on fairness and machine learning. He led the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. In 2017, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government upon scientists and engineers who have recently embarked on independent research careers and demonstrated outstanding leadership in the fields of science and technology.
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Sayash Kapoor
Ph.D. Candidate of Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
Sayash Kapoor is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He previously worked at Facebook and conducted AI research at Columbia University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He has received the Best Paper Award at the ACM FAccT Conference and the Impact Recognition Award at the ACM CSCW Conference, both from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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Thomas Luo
Founding Partner at GenAI Assembling
Thomas Luo is Founding Partner of GenAI Assembling and Founder & CEO of both Si-Planet and PingWest. Thomas is a prominent figure in Chinese tech media and an alumnus of Tsinghua University. He has built a reputation as a keen observer of technological innovation in both China and Silicon Valley.
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