Men, it’s probably best to leave faking intelligence to AI chatbots.
According to a new survey from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, over half of dudes will pretend to know stuff about the AI industry even if they have absolutely zero clue what they’re talking about.
In the survey, Harvard researchers asked more than 5,400 respondents if they knew who various AI executives were. A full 98 percent of men said they were familiar with Elon Musk, which seems reasonable, and 73 percent said they knew who Sam Altman was. But what about more peripheral figures? When it came to Susan Milner and Craig Dalton, only 53 percent of men said they knew who they were.
There was a hilarious catch: Milner and Dalton don’t exist. Men, the data showed, were chronic bluffers. Women fibbed about knowing who Milner and Dalton were, too, but at a much lower share of 40 percent each.
