Overview
- Microsoft named Mustafa Suleyman to lead the MAI Superintelligence Team and appointed Karén Simonyan as chief scientist within the Microsoft AI organization.
- Suleyman said Microsoft is now free to develop its own superintelligence in parallel with its OpenAI partnership, backed by substantial investment and in-house compute.
- The team will target specialist, superhuman performance in defined areas, beginning with medical diagnostics, which Suleyman said has a line of sight within two to three years.
- Suleyman said Microsoft will not pursue an 'infinitely capable generalist' and argued autonomous, self-improving systems cannot be reliably controlled.
- Microsoft is recruiting researchers from top labs and framing the work as 'Humanist Superintelligence' aimed at real-world benefits with human control and minimal existential risk.