Mistral's founder and CEO Arthur Mensch doesn't believe in god and therefore, he doesn't believe in artificial general intelligence.

Artificial general intelligence, also referred to as AGI, is a level of Al that will outperform humans. It has yet to be reached, but it's a buzzy topic of conversation as leaders grapple with the possibility that Al may become more intelligent than humans - and soon.

"The whole AGI. rhetoric is about creating God," Mistral said in the interview. "I don't believe in God. I'm a strong atheist. So I don't believe in AGI."

Other figures in tech are going even further and creating a new religion around Al.

Anthony Levandowski, a pioneer in driverless cars whom Donald Trump pardoned for stealing trade secrets, announced he was bringing his Al church back.

Levandowski, now the CEO of Pollen Mobile, founded his "Way of the Future" church in 2015 while he worked as an engineer on Google's Waymo.

The church was shut down a few years later, but Levandowski's new church already has "a couple thousand people" who want to build a "spiritual connection" with Al, he said in the interview.

"Here we're actually creating things that can see everything, be everywhere, know everything," Levandowski said in the interview. "And maybe help us and guide us in a way that normally you would call God."