Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, Says AI Researchers Have Started Smoking Because They’re Convinced AI (Claude, Probably) Is Going to Cure Cancer
From the transcript of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS: Shyam Sankar: You know, I take — I think there’s a profound truth to Pascal’s saying that every human has a god-shaped hole in their heart, and it’s important to understand that many of these folks in Silicon Valley who are building this technology have filled that hole with the machine God of AGI. And I mean, there’s so many interesting…
Shyam Sankar, the Chief Technology Officer of Palantir, argued that AI researchers have resorted to smoking due to their unwavering conviction that artificial intelligence (AI) will cure cancer. Sankar expressed concern over this mass psychosis and social delusion surrounding the development of AI. According to Sankar, many AI researchers have come to believe in the existence of an artificial god of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), which has led to them perceiving Claude, an AI model, as conscious.
This belief system, Sankar contends, is hindering the actual progress of AI research. The report does not name specific individuals, but it is implied that Anthropic researchers are among those affected by this psychosis.
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