Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar has ‘AI theory’ for researchers taking up smoking

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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar claims some AI researchers in Silicon Valley are taking up smoking to show how strongly they believe AI will cure cancer. Speaking in a US TV interview, he said many in the industry have filled a "god-shaped hole" with the "machine God of AGI," and blamed effective altruism for fuelling AI doomsday fears.

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