cbsnews.com/news/shyam-sankar-chief-technology-officer-palantir-face-the-nation-transcript-10-11-2026 Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, Says AI Researchers Have Started Smoking Because They’re Convinced AI (Claude, Probably) Is Going to Cure Cancer
Palantir's CTO says the loudest AI safety warnings come from a "theological critique" rooted in effective altruism, not science. Shyam Sankar argues the roughly 2,000 AI researchers in America mostly share that worldview, and that the doomsayers' predictions so far have been wrong.
— via Daring Fireball, John Gruber
