AI hype refers to a situation in which the claimed or perceived capabilities of AI surpasses the actual capabilities of the systems in question. Not all such hype is innocent, however, as the perception that the public, academics, business owners, and politicians have about I shape how they act, invest, behave, and legislate. In today’s episode Dwayne Monroe comes on the TDSlowdown to discuss these issues, and in particular to allow me to dig a bit deeper into his thinking about what he calls AI as propaganda. Here is a link to Dwayne’s article on the subject: https://monroelab.net/attack-mannequins-ai-as-propaganda And here is a link to a related article I have written on a related subject: https://www.igi-global.com/article/confounding-complexity-of-machine-action/269437