AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, "as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI", Palantir CTO tells CBS News' "Face the Nation"
(www.businessinsider.com)
plot twist: AI does develop a cure for cancer, but the only way to get it is to pay millions of dollars for the cure because it's owned by the richest people in the world, and they don't want "filthy poor people" to have access to it.