• How to recognise AI snake oil Slides of a terrific lecture by Arvind Narayanan of Princeton.
• Killer doubts Good review by Diane Coyle of * Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Erik Conway and Naoini Oreskes.
• Very thoughtful commentary by Wendy Grossman on my observer column about how we hold AI systems to higher standards than humans doing the same thing.
• Elon Musk’s weird ‘cybertruck’ Jean-Louis Gasseé on whether it’s a real prospect, or just PR clickbait.

Thanks to Philip Cunningham for spotting a duff link.