Palantir’s CTO claims AI researchers are smoking to prove they believe AI will cure cancer, and he says it’s a sign of tech-fueled ‘mass psychosis’

01Summary

1. 01Shyam Sankar made the remarks in an interview on CBS' 'Face the Nation'.
2. 02He said, without evidence, that 'so many researchers' had started smoking to show belief in AI.
3. 03Sankar argued that Silicon Valley has fallen into a 'social delusion' and 'mass psychosis' over artificial general intelligence.
4. 04He also criticised AI safety advocates linked to effective altruism, calling the movement a 'millenarian doomsday cult'.
5. 05A Politico poll last month found that 63% of Americans believe AI poses at least a moderate risk of destroying humanity.