Tech’s biggest CEOs from Elon Musk to Sam Altman are sounding the alarm on an apparent inevitability: AI is going to be smarter than you very soon. But the fresh-faced boss of an upstart French challenger to OpenAI thinks ominous warnings of artificial superintelligence could be the result of a misguided God complex.
Speaking to the New York Times, Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch described the clamor among tech’s biggest names to declare AI’s supremacy over humans as being driven by a “very religious” fascination.
