Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market

• Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
• Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
• Some large tech companies didn't want to compete with open source, he added.

A leading AI expert and Google Brain cofounder said Big Tech companies were stoking fears about the technology's risks to shut down competition.

Google Brain was a deep-learning AI research team that merged with the DeepMind division earlier this year.