AI Snake Oil cuts through the hype—find out what AI really can and can’t do, why some claims are pure fiction, and how real-world harms are already shaping education, hiring, and healthcare. Get the facts on AI’s true impact. #AISnakeOil #AIethics #TechReality

https://paminy.com/what-ai-can-and-cant-do-in-depth-review-of-ai-snake-oil-by-arvind-narayanan-sayash-kapoor/

AI Snake Oil cuts through the hype—discover what AI truly excels at, where it fails, and why critical thinking matters more than ever in a world of bold tech promises. Get the facts behind the fiction. #AISnakeOil #AIEthics

https://paminy.com/what-ai-can-and-cant-do-in-depth-review-of-ai-snake-oil-by-arvind-narayanan-sayash-kapoor/

Are you a web developer? Do you have Unfriendly Thoughts about the way all the other devs are obsessed with AI? Take the State of Web Dev AI 2025 survey: https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-ai/2025

If we don't talk, they won't listen. #webdev #noAI #AIsnakeOil

Will Oremus: Flawed #AI denies benefits to low-income Americans, report warns

"With the incoming Trump administration reportedly looking to slash food stamps and Medicaid, a new report finds that artificial intelligence and related technologies are playing a growing role in determining who receives those benefits — and in some cases mistakenly denying them.

The 197-page report by TechTonic Justice, a nonprofit launched Tuesday, finds that almost all 92 million low-income Americans already “have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI” or automated decision-making software. That includes people affected by:

•Eligibility and enrollment processes for Medicaid;
•Prior authorization processes used by private insurers;
•Fraud-detection systems used by food stamp programs; and
•Landlords’ use of background-screening algorithms and rent-setting algorithms."

#AISnakeOIL Techtonicjustice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/20/ai-benefit-programs-doge-techtonic-justice/

A Report from TechTonic Justice
Inescapable AI: The Ways #AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive

"The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, by governments, landlords, employers, and other powerful private interests restricts the opportunities of low-income people in every basic aspect of life: at home, at work, in school, at government offices, and within families. AI technologies derive from a lineage of automation and algorithms that have been in use for decades with established patterns of harm to low-income communities. As such, now is a critical moment to take stock and correct course before AI of any level of technical sophistication becomes entrenched as a legitimate way to make key decisions about the people society marginalizes."

#AIsnakeoil #techtonicjustice
https://www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai

Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas

#WTF #surveillance #AISnakeOIL

Fantastic thread from @Iris :

https://scholar.social/@Iris/110941190801136014

::sigh:: on one hand, we've got shitty "ChatGPT Checkers" pushing the surveillance model of education, which would be a terrible idea even if they worked (they don't). And on the other hand, we've got #AISnakeOil peddlers basically saying "it's only plagiarism if you get caught!"