Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch is pushing back against the increasingly dire warnings coming from some of the biggest U.S. artificial intelligence companies, arguing that the debate over AI safety is being used to obscure failures in how powerful systems are being developed and deployed.
"The debate that we've seen in the U.S. has been a cover for the negligence of some of our competitors," Mensch told CNBC, arguing that companies should focus on building systems capable of containing and monitoring increasingly autonomous AI agents.
