Palantir CTO Thinks AI-Driven Mass Unemployment Is a ‘Fundraising Shtick’

The chief technology officer of one of the most consequential mass-surveillance companies in the world, Palantir, thinks that artificial general intelligence is a fantasy and that the narrative that AI will replace jobs is a marketing tactic.

“I think the secularists in Silicon Valley are filling the God-shaped hole in their heart with A.G.I,” Sankar told the New York Times in an interview published on Thursday.

“The doomerism of Silicon Valley is both a fund-raising shtick, where the…