PALANTIR CTO SHYAM SANKAR: The American people are being lied to about AI

The American people are being lied to about artificial intelligence (AI). On one hand, we’re offered apocalyptic prophecies of job loss and oppression — even the extinction of the human race. On the other, we hear utopian fantasies of a future without toil, without sickness, perhaps even without death — a life without meaning or mission.

The utopians and the doomers commit the same error: they neglect human agency. 

The future of AI is not an inevitability to be endured by the American people ...