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Palantir CTO claims AI researchers are smoking to signal faith in cancer cures

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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar has claimed that some artificial intelligence researchers in Silicon Valley are taking up smoking as a way to signal their extreme confidence that AI technology will eventually cure cancer.

Speaking on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’, Sankar described the trend as a form of “mass psychosis” and “social delusion.” He argued that many individuals developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) have replaced traditional religious faith with a belief in a “machine god.”

Avi Schiffmann, founder of the AI wearable startup Friend, expressed a similar sentiment, suggesting that by the time individuals develop lung cancer, AI robots are expected to have found a cure.

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Avi Schiffmann · Friend · Palantir · Shyam Sankar

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Ricercatori fumano per credere nell’AI a cura del cancro [www.forux.it]
Smoking Becomes Trendy In Silicon Valley Because Some Researchers Believe AI Will Cure Cancer [sfist.com]
AI Researchers Are Specifically Picking Up Crushing Cigs Because They're So Confident The Technology Will Cure Cancer Before It Can Kill Them [brobible.com]