Inaugural TIME100 AI List Recognizes Princeton U Professor, Student

PRINCETON, NJ – TIME Magazine recently released its inaugural Time100 AI list, recognizing the influential figures driving the future of artificial intelligence (AI).

Princeton University professor Arvind Narayanan and PhD student Sayash Kapoor fetaure alongside the biggest names in the AI world like Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

Narayanan, a professor of computer science and his student Kapoor are writing a book “AI Snake Oil” based on their popular substack column of the same name.

The book will be published in 2024 and takes a critical look on what AI can and cannot do.

“In 2019, Arvind Narayanan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University, gave a talk titled “How to recognize AI snake oil.” The talk went viral: the slides were downloaded tens of thousands of times and his tweets were viewed by millions,” wrote TIME.

“Sensing an appetite, Narayanan teamed up with Sayash Kapoor, one of his Ph.D. students, to write a book on the topic, which will be published in 2024. They have been sharing their ideas as they develop and commenting on recent developments in AI on their Substack, AI Snake Oil.”

In an interview with TIME, Narayanan said AI can be a force of good in the world but that can only happen “if there are these strong countervailing forces that try to align incentives between companies and the rest of society.”

The inaugural TIME issue features a worldwide cover with 28 individuals.

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