Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt intervention in the AI personhood debate landed like a splash of cold water: in interviews and an August 19, 2025 essay he warned that building systems that seem conscious risks steering the industry and the public into a dangerous, morally confused territory. In a WIRED...
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of consumer AI, has bluntly declared that the idea of machine consciousness is an “illusion” and warned that intentionally building systems to appear conscious could produce social, legal, and psychological harms far sooner than any technical breakthrough in...
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