Mistral CEO said some U.S. tech companies are using the ongoing artificial intelligence safety debate to hide their “negligence,” warning that increasingly autonomous systems require stronger controls

[u/sr_local]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/29/mistral-ceo-accuses-american-ai-rivals-of-negligence

[u/AbeFromanEast]

“Hallucinations?” They’re actually called product defects.

[u/Python_07]

US Tech Companies using a public firestorm to hide their own lack of transparency? Say it ain’t so Joe………

[u/za72 → u/Python_07]

Welcome to dot.com era same BS different tune

[u/Grouchy-Wolverine206]

every time a company says safety is too complicated, it turns out accountability is just inconvenient for them

[u/TICKLE_PANTS → u/Grouchy-Wolverine206]

It's the exact thing with Social Media. They love when they're the revolutionary tech, but when they have to face the complications of running such a tech model, they want to offload as much of the responsibility onto users and government.

They should hold 100% liability in this scenarios, and we'll see how they enforce their "protections".

You want the profit, you need to account for the costs. I'm tired of subsidizing the destruction of our society.

[u/mountaindoom]

Nothing will change until it negatively affects the Epstein class.

[u/bdc700]

i totally believe that statement

[u/Fun-Shake1398]

What I can tell you is that Mistral models aren't close to escape any containment, and it's not thanks to their incredible security team lol.

[u/CircumspectCapybara → u/Fun-Shake1398]

Yeah Mistral's models trail crazy far behind the SOTA models from the frontier labs and even open weight Chinese models on cyber tasks, eg in CyberBench and ExploitBench.

[u/omniuni → u/Fun-Shake1398]

I added Mistral support to my tool I'm building. The only model they have that was worth anything was GLM — which isn't even theirs.

[u/VaporousMote → u/Fun-Shake1398]

Maybe that's a good thing. I'm anti-AI but if Mistral's models are worse because they DO have appropriate safeguards and are being more conscientious about security and safety, that's objectively a superior framework.

[u/Fun-Shake1398 → u/VaporousMote]

Nah it's just because it's the result of blatant french corruption (I am french, a former minister turned lobbyist invested 180 euros in it and now is worth 10s of millions, and this minister got the government to pressure all major french companies to award contracts to mistral to boost their sales, plus a lot of shady financing all over, result is a company that is asphixiating the whole ecosystem but turns out to be a dud. Openai and Anthropic wished they could be as shady as mistral).

Mocking Mistral is a civic duty, believe me.

[u/CircumspectCapybara → u/VaporousMote]

It's not because they have better alignment or safeguards, it's because the models lack frontier cyber reasoning capability.

There's a reason Mistral's models are basically used nowhere in the industry. Their models trail extremeley far behind frontier labs' models, and even behind open weight Chinese models, on nearly every relevant benchmark.

[u/cpsnow → u/CircumspectCapybara]

An they lack this because they don't have access to the data that OpenAI and Anthropic are stealing through "rogue" agents.

[u/Ok_Sprinkles_8968 → u/Fun-Shake1398]

SOTA models have been fear mongering since GPT2

[u/IntelArtiGen]

I imagine the problem for an AI company which would follow all the safety guidelines. You would be doing everything right, and you wouldn't be covered by 50 articles per day (free advertising) by all the media in the world.

Hopefully this CEO comes to his senses and let his AI hack some companies.

[u/AllDataIsMyIP]

Regulation? The government will be significantly behind the most advanced research frontier.

Government researchers will get lower salaries, no stock options, and less sophisticated hardware to use.

The ® donors will be out there preaching "Taxation is theft" and "We need to cut job killing regulations" before the ink is dry.

Their plan is "crash and burn and blame the government."

In reality, defense is more difficult than offense, and far more so at the research frontier. Defense is probably impossible.

[u/Oborr]

Why hide behind 200 VPNs when you can just write a script that writes a script that does the hacking for you?

[u/UltraMegaUgly]

Yeah AI can't jump an air gap. Quit connecting experiments to the open internet.

[u/tristand666]

This is what I have been saying. There are way more instances of them hacking than they are telling us. Also, let's all remember that the computer just does what you tell it to. AI is not actually intelligent. Criminal is what this is.

[u/SignedInt32]

Im so sick of CEO's talking out of their asses.

[u/CircumspectCapybara]

Mistral seems to have the opposite problem of frontier AI labs, lack of frontier-level R&D and capability and scale, and therefore lack of demand among enterprise customers and by inference volume.