3 Easy Ways To Evaluate AI Claims

In the midst of the AI "gold rush," how can you separate the nuggets from the fool's gold? There's no shortage of cautionary tales involving overhyped AI claims. And applying AI technologies to health care, education, and law enforcement mean that getting it wrong can have real consequences for society--not just for investors who bet on the wrong unicorn. So IEEE Spectrum asked experts to share their tips for how to identify AI hype in press releases, news articles, research papers, and IPO filings. "It can be tricky, because I think the people who are out there selling the AI hype--selling this AI snake oil--are getting more sophisticated over time," says Tim Hwang, director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative.