Sayash Kapoor is a computer science Ph.D. candidate and a Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow, Princeton University's highest honor for a graduate student. His work has been published in leading scientific journals such as Science and Nature Human Behaviour, as well as conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, and ICML. He co-authored AI Snake Oil, one of Nature's 10 best books of 2024. His newsletter is read by 75,000 AI enthusiasts, researchers, policymakers, and journalists. He has written for mainstream outlets including The Wall Street Journal and WIRED, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and many other outlets. Kapoor has been recognized with various awards, including a best paper award at ACM FAccT, an impact recognition award at ACM CSCW, a Privacy Papers for Policymakers award, and inclusion in TIME's inaugural list of the 100 most influential people in AI.