More than half of the men surveyed in a new Harvard study said they recognized AI leaders who were, in fact, completely made up.
The results suggest that many people are willing to claim familiarity with the field's key players even when they have no real basis for it. The study’s authors found that the tendency was common among the men who took part.
WIRED framed the findings as a self-test for its readers. The piece asks whether a reader who follows AI closely would recognize the names of people building the technology. Some are famous. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is the obvious example. Others are less well known, and the article lists Mira Murati, Susan Milner and Craig Dalton as names a reader might be asked about.
The gap between recognition and real knowledge is the central point of the report. It is easy to nod along to a familiar name, and harder to say what that person has actually done. Respondents who said they knew the fictional names were, by definition, claiming knowledge that did not exist.
The article was written by Kate Taylor, a senior writer at WIRED who covers the future of work. Taylor previously was a senior correspondent at Business Insider and served as an executive producer of the Emmy-nominated docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.
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