The Chief Technology Officer of one of the world’s most innovative companies, Palantir, thinks that artificial intelligence is a hoax and that the narrative that AI will replace jobs is a marketing strategy.
“I think Silicon Valley workers are filling a God-shaped hole in their heart with AGI,” Sankar told the New York Times in an interview published Thursday.
“The Doomerism of Silicon Valley is fund raising, where Frontier Labs can say: my technology is powerful, so you will be able to invest in me, or you will be separated from any kind of reality,” Sankar said.
He is not the only one who has raised doubts about the future of AI and its relationships.
Agi, sometimes called superintelligence, is an advanced AI system that can clearly surpass human intelligence on all scales. It has become the Holy Grail With Silicon Valley companies Stands Fight like Meta, made Multibillion-Dollar spending money to be the first to reach it. Many experts warn of the dangers of agi if available, while others doubt that the technology has never caught up that level of sophistication.
But AI doesn’t need to evolve from Superintelligence before it starts to evolve into the way our society works. The latest and greatest hit has been effective. CEOs in the payments industry are open about their plans to have AI bring back near-future employees or potential profit-enhancing benefits. Amazon recently laid off 14,000 allied workers, citing the “transformative” power of AI. Meanwhile, a recent Stanford study found that AI may already be crushing the youth sports market.
However, despite all these findings, many remain suspicious.
New York University Professor of Management and Organizations Robert Seamans told Gizmoto in August that the adoption of AI beyond the corporate sector remains low. Instead of AI being the suspect behind the layoffs, SENAS thinks that it is the drawing of the company’s performance, because it is very difficult to blame the tax rates or the uncertainty of the economy for the reduction of employment.
Others, such as writer Cory Dorow, believe that managers “like this story” of Ayi over employees because they want to have employees “give them a chance to put themselves in their place.”
Doctorow thinks that AI cannot effectively replace the work of many workers and there may be some evidence of a backlash. An MIT study in August found that corporate pilots are not good at building revenue streams.
However, Sankar’s observation about how powerful AI Technologies can be is partly self-motivating, and Ross Douthat, the New York Times Columnist interviewing him, revealed this to be quite subtle.
“It’s in your best interest, by the way, to convince yourself that the math of your work ethic is always difficult,” Douthat said.
Relegating their work ethic has been something Palantir has had to deal with in recent years.
Palantir’s self-proclaimed purpose is to create technology that can be used as an influence for good, according to Sankar. That goal is difficult to understand when seen in conjunction with Palantir’s expanding role as a defense contractor and surveillance technology provider.
Sankar himself is very fond of ‘getting the kill chain right,’ something he talks about in almost every interview, and he made sure to mention it several times this time.
When asked if Palantir’s software was involved in the Trump Administration’s controversial handling of anti-narcotics boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, Susisa said, “Our software has been shipped overseas to the military.” “
Palantir is also working with the US government, and especially Snow, to help turbolarda their surveillance efforts. In August, Ice announced that Palantir would build a $30 million surveillance platform called iatomos to help with the organization’s deportation campaign. After that, the Amnesty International Report from August found that the AI products of American companies like Palantir were used by the Ministry of Homeland Security to direct the rights of Palestine.
“I think a lot of policies, a lot of things that people are struggling with right now in the US, are voted on at the ballot box.
When asked how Palantir decides how governments work and what questions to say yes to, Sankar said they want to use the law, they trust the government, and there is potential for abuse and abuse. It is therefore surprising to him that they have a continuing relationship with the Israeli army, whose actions in Gaza amount to genocide according to the UN authorities.
Late last year, StoetBrand’s asset management, Norwan’s largest investor, sold all of its holdings in Palantir due to concerns about international human rights violations. The company reported that the analysis revealed that Palantir was assisted by the IDF’s AI-based system that counted Palestinians based on the “Lone Wolf renewal” attack, which then led to an easy arrest.
Sankar wonders if Israel is a morally right partner.
Earlier this year, Sankar was among the executives with Silicon Valley to join the US Army Reserve as officers, another OpenAI COCKROFECT Officer BOB MCGREW, and Opelai Weil’s product officer. His decision to join, he says, was inspired by “the experiment in Israel after Oct. 7. 7.”
“Israel is a country of amazing technology. A lot of technological resources,” Sankar said. “The IDF received more modernization in four months after Oct. 7 than in the 10 years I worked with them before.”
Perhaps Palantir’s claims to be a force for good are also, in their own way, “fundraing schtick.”
