Mistral CEO Rejects Pope Leo's AI Criticism
Arthur Mensch said Europe needs its own capabilities as Mistral expands defense-AI work and the Vatican presses for stricter limits on autonomous weapons.
- On Thursday, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch rejected Pope Leo XIV's call to "disarm AI," arguing that European companies cannot afford unilateral restraint while adversaries actively deploy military artificial intelligence.
- Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, published Monday, demands international regulation to curb AI warfare and explicitly rejects traditional "just war" theory as outdated for autonomous weaponry.
- Mistral announced a new 10-megawatt data center in Les Ulis, France, as part of a €4 billion strategy to reach 1 gigawatt of computing power by 2030.
- Addressing societal "anguish" over AI, Mensch maintains that developing these models is essential for Europe to maintain technological independence against global rivals.
- European leaders are accelerating defense-AI procurement as they pursue tech sovereignty, with executives warning that missing the race to AGI poses significant geopolitical risks for the continent.
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"There is no algorithm capable of making war morally acceptable." The first American pope published in an encyclical a series of warnings on how artificial intelligence could affect humanity. The reactions of leaders and business leaders to these comments are divergent and show the ambivalences of a sector that seems to have no limits on its military uses.
Mistral’s Arthur Mensch directly rebuts Pope Leo on AI in warfare
Three days after the Vatican called for AI to be ‘disarmed’, the Mistral CEO defended his company’s defence-AI work, arguing Europe cannot afford unilateral restraint. Arthur Mensch, the chief executive of French AI startup Mistral, pushed back directly on Thursday against Pope Leo XIV’s call to “disarm AI,” arguing that European companies cannot afford to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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