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Mistral CEO @arthurmensch says he doesn't subscribe to doomsday scenario's and doesn't see any meaningful paths in which AI escapes out of control in a way we can't just turn off the computers it runs on: "It's pretty clear that they are getting good enough to escape from non-hardened sandboxes. It's going to be a friction for adoption in the enterprise that autonomous agents have a tendency to do pretty surprising stuff". "Doomsday scenarios, I don't subscribe to them. I don't see any…
FULL INTERVIEW: CEO of Mistral @arthurmensch on building or surrendering, European AI independence, funding gigawatt scale infrastructure in Europe, Le Chonk, AGI, the singularity, and existential risk. 00:24 - Build or Surrender 01:13 - Value in AI application, model and infra layers 03:57 - Mistral's full-stack strategy 05:56 - Open-source & European AI independence 08:31 - Funding gigawatt-scale infrastructure in Europe 11:40 - Overcoming pessimism & sovereign AI 13:26 - AGI, the Singularity, and existential risk concerns 14:50 - AI risks: agent security, control, and misuse 16:16 - The story behind the model name "Le Chonk"