AI Snake Oil

AI Snake Oil is written by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, researchers at Princeton, and takes a deliberately skeptical stance toward AI hype — examining which claims about AI capabilities hold up to scrutiny and which don't. It grew out of their well-known academic work and talks on the same subject.

For readers tired of breathless AI marketing, this newsletter offers a rigorous, evidence-based counterweight, evaluating both overhyped claims and genuine underappreciated risks with equal care.