Smoke Signals: The dangerous fatalism of AGI in Silicon Valley

Fecha de publicación: 19 de octubre de 2026, 8:11

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Last week, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar mentioned something bizarre in an interview on CBS News. "So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI," he said. Their thinking, he said, goes like this: "I believe…