Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar: So many AI researchers started smoking as a way to signal to other researchers how much they believe in AI. "I believe so much in artificial intelligence that it is going to cure cancer. So I show you that my chips are all inside. " So there is this kind of mass psychosis, a social illusion around it.

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar: So many AI researchers started smoking as a way to signal to other researchers how much they believe in AI. "I believe so much in artificial intelligence that it is going to cure cancer. So I show you that my chips are all inside. " So there is this kind of mass psychosis, a social illusion around it.