AI researchers smoke cigs to flex belief AI will cure cancer first

OutsideOver8815 · reddit · 2026-10-14

A viral Reddit post shares a meme of AI researchers taking up smoking to flex how strongly they believe AI will cure cancer before cigarettes kill them, sourced from a Polymarket tweet. Pure AI-circle self-deprecating humor.

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