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. Andrew Ng, an adjunct professor at Stanford University who taught OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, told The Australian Financial Review that the biggest tech companies hoped to trigger strict regulation with the "bad idea that AI could make us go extinct." "There are definitely large tech companies that would rather not have to try to compete with open source, so they're ... (full story)