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  1. Seemingly Conscious AI: Guardrails for Windows Copilot and AI Personas

    Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt diagnosis — that machine consciousness is an “illusion” and that building systems to mimic personhood is dangerous — has reframed a debate that until recently lived mostly in philosophy seminars and research labs. His argument is practical, not metaphysical: modern...
  2. Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI): The Psychosis Risk and How to Mitigate It

    Microsoft’s top AI executive has issued a stark, unusual warning: the near‑term danger from advanced generative systems may not be that machines become conscious, but that humans will believe they are — and that belief could reshape law, ethics, mental health and everyday product design faster...
  3. AI Psychosis and Seemingly Conscious AI: Guardrails for Safe Chatbots

    Microsoft’s AI leadership has sounded a public alarm about a new, unsettling pattern: as chatbots become more fluent, personable and persistent, a small but growing number of users are forming delusional beliefs about those systems — believing they are sentient, infallible, or even conferring...
  4. Seemingly Conscious AI: Suleyman Warns of AI Personhood Risks

    Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has issued a stark public warning: engineers and executives are on the brink of building systems that look, talk and behave like persons — and society is not prepared for the consequences. In a wide-ranging essay published in August 2025, Suleyman framed a...