Microsoft AI Boss Calls Godlike Robots 'Anti-Goal,' Risking Silicon Panic

KEY POINTS

•Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI chief and one-time DeepMind cofounder, calls artificial superintelligence an 'anti-goal.'
•He explained his team is working instead on a 'humanist superintelligence' that supports human interests.
•Sam Altman of OpenAI aggressively pursues superintelligence and predicts its arrival by 2030.
•Other leaders like Google’s Demis Hassabis and Meta’s Yann LeCun have timelines ranging from 5-10 years to decades for AGI.

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI chief and DeepMind cofounder, casually dropped an intellectual grenade on the 'Silicon Valley Girl Podcast' last Saturday: artificial superintelligence is an outright 'anti-goal.' While Sam Altman from OpenAI is sprinting toward superintelligence like it’s Black Friday, predicting its debut before 2030, Suleyman prefers to build something less apocalypse-themed—a 'humanist superintelligence.' According to him, giving AI consciousness status is like awarding Oscars to Siri and Alexa for 'Best Dramatic Performance,' since 'they don’t suffer,' only simulate conversation. Meanwhile, Google’s Demis Hassabis also clocks superintelligence in 5-10 years, while Meta’s Yann LeCun remains committed to skepticism, warning that brains don’t scale like GPUs. Welcome to the wonderful world of AI, where your toaster might outthink you before your coffee kicks in.

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AI’s future is a Silicon Valley soap opera where Microsoft’s Mustafa plays the downer, screaming ‘anti-goal!’ while everyone else races to make machines smarter than your in-laws.

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