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AI Snake Oil (Narayanan & Kapoor)
Princeton researchers documenting where AI claims don't survive contact with evidence. The grown-up skeptic position.
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Skeptic
Stories that lead with what's not working. The counterweight to launch posts. Read these BEFORE you decide what to ship.
How this applies to AI Snake Oil (Narayanan & Kapoor): Princeton researchers documenting where AI claims don't survive contact with evidence. The grown-up skeptic position.
Reading strategy
When to reach for AI Snake Oil (Narayanan & Kapoor).
What you get
The pushback. The stress-test on capability claims. The question of whether the thing that launched last week actually works the way the launch post says it does.
When to read
After you read the builder sources. AI Snake Oil (Narayanan & Kapoor) is most valuable as a second read — it calibrates the optimism from the primary sources without becoming its own kind of bias.
What to discount
Skeptic sources can over-weight the failure cases. Read them for the critique, not the verdict.
Stories
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