Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking

Silicon Valley’s AI bros have supposedly found a new way to signal to those around them how committed they are to their industry: Take up smoking despite the risk of cancer, because they expect bots to develop a cure … any day now. At least, that’s the claim Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar made in a recent interview on CBS's Face the Nation. In trying to explain what he described as a doomsday cult surrounding effective altruism, whose adherents include some AI researchers who believe the technology c