Suleyman Wants AI Kept Unconscious by Design
Microsoft's AI chief says labs should build only unconscious AI, and he would call for a halt if consciousness emerged in training.
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Executive Vice President and CEO, Microsoft AI
Mustafa Suleyman leads Microsoft AI and its work on frontier models and humanist superintelligence. He previously co-founded DeepMind, where he led applied research and commercialization, and co-founded and led Inflection AI, the company behind Pi. His career combines AI company building, product development and debates about control and governance. His book The Coming Wave examines the societal consequences of increasingly powerful technologies.
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Mustafa Suleyman leads Microsoft AI and its work on frontier models and humanist superintelligence. He previously co-founded DeepMind, where he led applied research and commercialization, and co-founded and led Inflection AI, the company behind Pi. His career combines AI company building, product development and debates about control and governance. His book The Coming Wave examines the societal consequences of increasingly powerful technologies.
- Organization
- Microsoft AI
- Current focus
- Frontier models; humanist superintelligence
- Co-founded
- DeepMind; Inflection AI
- Book
- The Coming Wave, September 2023
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Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.
Focuses Microsoft AI leadership on superintelligence
Microsoft announces a new structure concentrating Suleyman’s work on superintelligence and frontier models, while Jacob Andreou takes responsibility for the unified consumer and commercial Copilot experience.
Source: Microsoft: Copilot leadership update ↗Announces the MAI Superintelligence Team
Suleyman introduces the team he leads within Microsoft AI and describes humanist superintelligence as advanced capabilities intended to remain bounded, controllable and useful to people.
Source: Mustafa Suleyman / Microsoft AI: Humanist Superintelligence ↗Microsoft AI introduces its first in-house models
Microsoft AI previews MAI-1-preview and releases MAI-Voice-1 during Suleyman’s leadership, describing them as early steps toward a broader family of purpose-built models and products.
Source: Microsoft AI: Two in-house models ↗Joins Microsoft to lead Microsoft AI
Satya Nadella announces Suleyman’s appointment as executive vice president and CEO of the new Microsoft AI organization, with Karén Simonyan joining as its chief scientist.
Source: Microsoft: Suleyman appointment ↗Publishes The Coming Wave
Suleyman’s official biography dates the publication of The Coming Wave to September 2023, extending his work into public discussion of technology, power and AI governance.
Source: Mustafa Suleyman: official biography ↗Leaves DeepMind for a Google role
DeepMind announces Suleyman’s departure after nearly a decade, crediting his work establishing the company and developing applied collaborations before he moves into another role at Google.
Source: Google DeepMind: Tenth-year organization update ↗Co-founds DeepMind
Demis Hassabis’s account names Suleyman and Shane Legg as his fellow DeepMind founders in 2010, establishing the company behind a broad program of artificial intelligence research.
Source: Google DeepMind: Tenth-year organization update ↗
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