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- Andrew Ng, formerly of Google Brain, said Big Tech is exaggerating the risk of AI wiping out humans.
- That seems to attack AI leaders such as DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and OpenAI's Sam Altman.
- AI's biggest names are all piling in.
Some of the biggest figures in artificial intelligence are publicly arguing whether AI is really an extinction risk, after AI scientist Andrew Ng said such claims were a cynical play by Big Tech.