Palantir CTO claims some AI researchers take up smoking to show belief in AI curing cancer

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Palantir's Chief Technology Officer, Shyam Sankar, stated in a US television interview that some artificial intelligence researchers in Silicon Valley have started smoking. He claims they do this to demonstrate their conviction that AI will eventually cure cancer. Sankar also suggested that many in the industry have replaced religious faith with a belief in a 'machine God' of artificial general intelligence. He attributed prevalent fears about AI doomsday scenarios to the influence of the effective altruism movement.

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