Sayash Kapoor
AI researcher; co-author of AI Snake Oil and the AI as Normal Technology newsletter.
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- Sayash Kapoor is a computer scientist who studies how to evaluate AI agents and frontier systems.
- Kapoor completed a PhD in computer science at Princeton in July 2026, at the Center for Information Technology Policy, and joins the UC Berkeley School of Information as an assistant professor in July 2027.
- With Arvind Narayanan, Kapoor wrote AI Snake Oil, one of Nature's 10 best books of 2024, and writes the newsletter AI as Normal Technology.
- Kapoor was earlier a senior fellow at Mozilla.
Key facts
- Education
- PhD in computer science, Princeton University (July 2026); Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow1
- Next
- Assistant professor, UC Berkeley School of Information, from July 20271
- Book
- AI Snake Oil (with Arvind Narayanan), one of Nature's 10 best books of 20241
- Newsletter
- AI as Normal Technology, with over 85,000 readers1
- Honours
- TIME100 AI (inaugural list); MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (2026); 2026 IP3 Information Policy Award1
- Earlier
- Senior fellow, Mozilla1
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