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What are tech moguls saying about AI, AGI and 'creating God'

'It's almost as if they think they’re creating God or something,' says Mark Zuckerberg

By Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter
Founder and CEO of Mistral AI Arthur Mensch attends the VivaTech technology startups and innovation fair at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris on June 11, 2025. The VivaTech fair opened in Paris on June 11, 2025, in the presence of the French Minister for Digital Technologies, before welcoming a number of tech stars and the French President against a backdrop of trade tensions between Europe and the United States.
Founder and CEO of Mistral AI Arthur Mensch attends the VivaTech technology startups and innovation fair at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris on June 11, 2025. The VivaTech fair opened in Paris on June 11, 2025, in the presence of the French Minister for Digital Technologies, before welcoming a number of tech stars and the French President against a backdrop of trade tensions between Europe and the United States. | SARAH MEYSSONNIER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Arthur Mensch - CEO of Mistral AI

Contrary to most of his counterparts in Silicon Valley, Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI, has dismissed the notion of a “God-like” artificial general intelligence (AGI) as an unrealistic fantasy.

In an April 2024 interview with The New York Times, Mensch, a self-described atheist, said he’s not buying predictions from Musk and Altman about AI intelligence surpassing that of humans.

“The whole AGI rhetoric is about creating God. I don’t believe in God,” Mensch told the Times. "I'm a strong atheist. So I don’t believe in AGI.”  

He added that he sees the drive for AGI, at its core, as “very religious.”

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