"I think the secularists in Silicon Valley are filling the God-shaped hole in their heart with AGI," Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar said in an interview with the New York Times's Ross Douthat. "It's like, OK, the models get better. Why do you think that this cliff is going to happen where they somehow turn us into house cats?"

What the fuck is he even saying? Is he saying secularists are embracing AGI or are they afraid of it?

He also said that doomerism is a "fundraising shtick" where companies on the front lines of AI development "can say 'my technology is so powerful, it's going to lead to mass unemployment, so you better invest in me or you're going to be poor.'"

This is nonsensical. The mass unemployment predictions are really aimed at the AI company customers who think they would get richer with fewer employees. The potentially unemployed don’t have significant money to invest in these scams.

Where do they finds these people? But, also, fuck Business Insider and its shitty reporting.