Sayash Kapoor
Computer scientist and AI researcher
Sayash Kapoor is a Princeton computer scientist and coauthor of AI Snake Oil. His research looks at how AI affects society.
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About Sayash Kapoor
Sayash Kapoor is a computer scientist who has been a doctoral student at Princeton University. He has also held fellowships at Mozilla and at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. He studies how artificial intelligence affects society, especially whether results can be reproduced, how open AI systems are, and who answers for them. He coauthored AI Snake Oil, a critical look at what AI can and cannot do, which sets hype apart from genuine progress. Nature named the book among its ten best of 2024. He also writes a newsletter of the same name. Kapoor has published in scientific journals including Science and PNAS, and has written for outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and WIRED. He has won recognition from two Association for Computing Machinery conferences: a best paper prize at FAccT and an impact award at CSCW. TIME also included him in its first list of the 100 most influential people in AI.