Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman wants Humanist AI: What it is, and is it really safer

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has called for a different approach to building advanced artificial intelligence, arguing that AI systems should remain firmly under human control and should not be trained to think of themselves as conscious beings with feelings, rights or their own interests. In a new essay titled “A warning about ‘model welfare’”, Mustafa Suleyman takes aim at Anthropic’s approach to its Claude AI model. He argues that the company’s January 2026 Claude Constitution goes too far by asking the model to consider questions about its own consciousness, wellbeing and moral status.His proposed answer is “Humanist Superintelligence”, an approach in which AI remains subordinate to humans and is not trained to think of itself as conscious, deserving of rights or entitled to its own welfare. Suleyman argues this could make powerful AI systems easier to control.But the question is whether removing human-like ideas from AI…