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Andrew Ng claims Big Tech exaggerates AI dangers to curb competition. Is it a market strategy or real concern?

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Elon Musk has contested the claim made by a co-founder of Google Brain, stating that large technology corporations are misleading the public regarding the dangers associated with artificial intelligence.

Big Tech leaders are exaggerating the existential threat AI poses to humanity to solidify their market shares through government regulation, a leading figure in artificial intelligence told an Australian financial publication Monday.

Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain, says companies are fueling fears of AI posing an existential threat to humanity to weed out the competition.

Hinton and Bengio are concerned about AI's existential risks, or x-risks, while Ng and LeCun believe fears are overblown.

The likes of Uber, Airbnb and Amazon are unlocking billions of dollars in value by improving customer experience through predicting expected behaviour and improving productivity. Uber will predict the next time you place a ride, Airbnb is already preventing party-house reservations through AI, and Amazon is building a ChatGPT-style search experience. This is just the start

Andrew Ng, a leading AI expert, told The Australian Financial Review that Big Tech hoped to trigger strict regulation.

Scientists have accused big artificial intelligence companies of stoking fears over the technology in order to eliminate competition in the run-up to Rishi Sunak’s AI summit.

Critics say tech giants' endorsement of regulation is designed to hamper industry upstarts