Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar: doomers have been wrong about literally everything
eliano · x · 2026-10-12
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar laid out a systematic rebuttal of AI doom narratives:
- Wrong on every prediction: He was told ChatGPT-2 was too dangerous to release; doomers predicted mass unemployment by now, yet economists see job growth in unexpected areas.
- Contradictory narratives: Doomers simultaneously claim the technology will end humanity and could create Utopia. In his view, both share one thing: denying human agency — a "machine god" that either destroys or saves everything, with humans doing neither.
- Commentators consider him one of the best articulators of key AI topics among tech executives.
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