Dario Amodei · Palantir · AGI · Decrypt
AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Confirms Palantir Exec
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Nothing says "I trust the future of medicine" like lighting a Marlboro and waiting for the chatbot to fix your lungs.
Key facts
- In the CBS poll Brennan cited, 50% of Americans said AI will create more problems than it solves, 29% said it will solve more than it creates, and 21% were unsure
- The IMF's Kristalina Georgieva recently warned that AI could hit 40% of jobs, and insiders expect a major AI incident within a year
- About 45% said they want the government to restrict AI's use and development
- When you're smoking, you're networking by accident," Revamp AI cofounder Stephen Campbell told Business Insider last month
Summary
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar claimed on CBS that many AI researchers have started smoking to show how much they believe in AI. Sankar provide any data, and used the segment to attack effective altruism as a doomsday cult. The CDC says smoking causes about one in three U.S. cancer deaths, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei says only curing cancer will earn public trust in AI. "So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI," Sankar said News' " Face the Nation " on Sunday.