{"id":38765,"date":"2025-11-17T04:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/microsoft-ai-ceo-calls-artificial-superintelligence-an-anti-goal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T04:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:01:33","slug":"microsoft-ai-ceo-calls-artificial-superintelligence-an-anti-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/microsoft-ai-ceo-calls-artificial-superintelligence-an-anti-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI CEO calls artificial superintelligence an &#8216;anti-goal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/691a8d21abd5e944effad5bd?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Mustafa Suleyman\"\/><figcaption>Microsoft&#039;s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, is pushing back on Silicon Valley&#039;s AGI race, calling superintelligence an &quot;anti-goal.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Biess\/Getty Images for Lesbians Who Tech &amp; Allies<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft AI CEO said artificial superintelligence should be an &quot;anti-goal.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Mustafa Suleyman said his team is trying to build a &quot;humanist superintelligence&quot; instead.<\/li>\n<li>His comments come as industry leaders focus on building superintelligence fast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While much of Silicon Valley races to build godlike AI, Microsoft&#039;s AI chief is trying to pump the brakes.<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Suleyman said on an episode of the &quot;Silicon Valley Girl Podcast&quot; published Saturday that the idea of artificial superintelligence shouldn&#039;t just be avoided. It should be considered an &quot;anti-goal.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Artificial superintelligence \u2014 AI that can reason far beyond human capability \u2014 &quot;doesn&#039;t feel like a positive vision of the future,&quot; said Suleyman.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It would be very hard to contain something like that or align it to our values,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Suleyman, who cofounded DeepMind before moving to Microsoft, said his team is &quot;trying to build a humanist superintelligence&quot; \u2014 one that supports human interest.<\/p>\n<p>Suleyman also said that granting AI anything resembling consciousness or moral status is a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;These things don&#039;t suffer. They don&#039;t feel pain,&quot; Suleyman said. &quot;They&#039;re just simulating high-quality conversation.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>The debate on superintelligence<\/h2>\n<p>Suleyman&#039;s comments come as some industry leaders speak about building artificial superintelligence. Some say that it could arrive this decade.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has repeatedly described artificial general intelligence \u2014 AI that can reason like a human \u2014 as the company&#039;s core mission. Altman said earlier this year that OpenAI is already looking beyond AGI to superintelligence.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own, and in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity,&quot; Altman said in January.<\/p>\n<p>Altman also said in an interview in September that he&#039;d be very surprised if superintelligence doesn&#039;t emerge by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Google DeepMind&#039;s cofounder, Demis Hassabis, offered a similar timeline. He said in April that AGI could be achieved &quot;in the next five to 10 years.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;ll have a system that really understands everything around you in very nuanced and deep ways and kind of embedded in your everyday life,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Other leaders have urged skepticism. Meta&#039;s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, said we may still be &quot;decades&quot; away from achieving AGI.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Most interesting problems scale extremely badly,&quot; LeCun said at the National University of Singapore in April. &quot;You cannot just assume that more data and more compute means smarter AI.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#039;s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, is pushing back on Silicon Valley&#039;s AGI race, calling superintelligence an &quot;anti-goal.&quot; Bonnie Biess\/Getty Images for Lesbians Who Tech &amp; Allies Microsoft AI CEO said artificial superintelligence should be an &quot;anti-goal.&quot; Mustafa Suleyman said his team is trying to build a &quot;humanist superintelligence&quot; instead. 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