"This is really a religion, a cult-like belief, a doomsday cult." Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar unloads on the ideology he says dominates Silicon Valley's AI labs, saying that predictions of AI destroying humanity have "no rooting in a technical reality." His point: Americans shouldn't just take these doomsday predictions at face value, especially as Washington weighs how far to go in regulating AI. "We really have two competing visions of AI," he says, contrasting the pursuit of what he calls a "machine God" with using AI to drive American prosperity and create jobs. @​AmericaNewsroom ▻