Overview
- On BBC Radio 4’s Today, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman called for a “humanist” approach that keeps systems aligned to human interests.
- He said a degree of fear is healthy and warned that self‑improving, goal‑setting autonomous models would likely be uncontrollable and could overwhelm humans.
- He argued for ethics baked in by design with provable containment and security guarantees before further development proceeds.
- He described AI as fundamentally labor‑replacing, citing early displacement of call‑centre workers and forecasting pressure on legal, accounting, HR, marketing and project‑management roles.
- Bill Gates highlighted AI’s healthcare potential but warned of “scary” misuse by bad actors and urged heavier taxation of the tech firms that control the technology.