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Mustafa Suleyman

CEO, Microsoft AI

Neutral, this week

Not scored yet. New voices get a score when the week closes on Sunday.

1 statement over 1 week, last spoke Nov 1.

What they've said

• Sunday, Nov 1Week 45

  Clarifying his essay on model welfare, the Microsoft AI CEO posted AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. and If consciousness started to emerge in training, I would call for everyone to stop AI development until we could design out those properties.

  Suleyman wrote that he was concerned about some of the reactions to his recent essay on model welfare and said I have seen no evidence that AIs are conscious or deserve welfare. He called building conscious AIs reckless, said any evidence of AI consciousness must be immediately disclosed publicly, and wrote Our welfare concerns should be focused on humans on earth experiencing life, today.

  Details and sources

  Coverage read the essay as a rebuttal to Anthropic's work on model welfare. The X post itself could not be opened; its text is taken from Business Today, which embeds it dated Nov 1, and the Edinburg Post, which gives the full stop-development sentence. Business Today also quotes These AIs will be world-class in persuasion and deception, but does not say that line is from the Nov 1 post, so it is left out here.

  Business Today, Edinburg Post, People Matters