‘Social media has allowed self-proclaimed ‘AI influencers’ who do nothing more than paraphrase Elon Musk to cash in on this hype with low-quality pieces. The result is dangerous.’
In The Guardian, Oscar Schwartz says trivializing AI in media coverage can be harmful and warns of news opportunism.
Schwartz is a New York-based freelance writer and researcher and a regular contributor to The Guardian.
‘The discourse is unhinged’: how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
THE GUARDIAN | July 2018 | by Oscar Schwartz