Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College, is the author of dozens of research articles and 16 books, most recently, Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science, Oxford University Press, 2023.
It has been almost 70 years since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined at a 1956 Dartmouth College summer workshop. Ever since, AI enthusiasts have chronically...
