Overview
- Mustafa Suleyman said people should be both amazed by AI and afraid of it, warning that the world would worsen if humans lost control.
- He promoted a Humanist Superintelligence approach focused on systems that are carefully calibrated, contextualized, and limited rather than highly autonomous.
- Suleyman said Microsoft has reached AI self‑sufficiency after removing prior contractual limits tied to its OpenAI deal, with new terms reported to allow independent AGI pursuits.
- Microsoft’s new superintelligence unit targets practical gains, citing goals like medical AI that it claims hit 85% accuracy on difficult diagnoses versus 20% for human doctors, along with personalized education tools and clean‑energy advances.
- He cautioned that no developer or policy expert has a reassuring plan to contain ever‑smarter systems, noted the company’s safety‑first path could be costlier or less efficient, and projected a year or two before the team produces frontier models.