Palantir CTO Says AI Researchers Are Taking Up Smoking Because They Expect AI to Cure Cancer
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-10-13
Per Business Insider, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says some AI researchers have taken up smoking as a signal that they believe AI will eventually cure cancer anyway. The poster quips that suddenly building machines smarter than humans doesn't look like such a high bar.
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