Some AI believers expect the technology to make smoking-related health risks like cancer a thing of the past, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said.

Forget sleepmaxxing and cold plunging: smoking is the new lifestyle flex among AI researchers.

At least, that’s according to Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, who said some AI researchers are taking up smoking to signal their belief that AI will eventually cure cancer.

“So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI,” Sankar said in an interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

  • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Maybe they’re just trying to open up new revenue streams - ones that have already been shown to be profitable, like peddling nicotine addiction? I’m waiting for the ads for Claude Smokes. And for the ladies we’ll have Gemini Slims. The ads can be shot in the AI datacenters with the actors lighting-up off GPU heatsinks.