The OII is delighted to welcome a panel of authors from the monograph on AI flaws and mispercetions, ‘Fake AI, pseudoscience, snake oil and hype’. They discuss ‘why are there so many pointless, and even dangerously flawed, AI systems?’

From predicting criminality to sexual orientation, fake and deeply flawed Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rampant. Amidst this feverishly hyped atmosphere, this book interrogates the rise and fall of AI hype, pseudoscience and snake oil. Bringing together different perspectives and voices from across disciplines and countries, it draws connections between injustices inflicted by inappropriate AI. Each chapter unpacks lazy and harmful assumptions made by developers when designing AI tools and systems, and examines the existential underpinnings of the technology itself to ask: why are there so many pointless, and even dangerously flawed, AI systems? In this event, you will meet some of the authors of this monograph.