By Lee Chong Ming
Publication Date: 2025-11-17 03:47:00
While much of Silicon Valley races to build godlike AI, Microsoft’s AI chief is trying to pump the brakes.
Mustafa Suleyman said on an episode of the “Silicon Valley Girl Podcast” published Saturday that the idea of artificial superintelligence shouldn’t just be avoided. It should be considered an “anti-goal.”
Artificial superintelligence — AI that can reason far beyond human capability — “doesn’t feel like a positive vision of the future,” said Suleyman.
“It would be very hard to contain something like that or align it to our values,” he added.
Suleyman, who cofounded DeepMind before moving to Microsoft, said his team is “trying to build a humanist superintelligence” — one that supports human interest.
Suleyman also said that granting AI anything resembling consciousness or moral status is a mistake.
“These things don’t suffer. They don’t feel pain,” Suleyman said. “They’re just simulating high-quality conversation.”
