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Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor published AI Snake Oil last week, selling about 8,000 copies. The book argues that broken AI appeals to broken institutions, not that all AI is useless. Reliable AI tools like spam filtering and speech recognition already improve daily life quietly.
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