AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec

Nothing says "I trust the future of medicine" quite like lighting a Marlboro and waiting for the chatbot to fix your lungs. That is the habit Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says is spreading among AI researchers, who have supposedly started smoking cigarettes to prove how confident they are that AI will 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.