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You can't steer something you can't control. [...] Containment has to come first - or alignment is the equivalent of asking nicely.
AI Verified source (Jan 7, 2026)
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AI Verified A matching-status mirror reproduces the full post under Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman), including both quoted segments in order: “You can't steer something you can't control.” … “Containment has to come first - or alignment is the equivalent of asking nicely.” NDTV Profit’s embedded tweet points to the same official status URL and dates it January 7, 2026, and Times of India/Economic Times independently quote the same lines from his X post. On that basis, the stored author, date, source URL, and excerpt are consistent. ([w.twstalker.com](https://w.twstalker.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2008964832880648485)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed Disputed: the cited seczine article does not contain the submitted wording; it instead quotes Suleyman with different lines about control preceding alignment. The closest match I found is a Jan. 7, 2026 X post attributed to @mustafasuleyman, mirrored by NDTV Profit/TwStalker, whose wording is different and ordered differently (it includes "You can't steer something you can't control" earlier, and "Containment has to come first - or alignment is the equivalent of asking nicely" later). So the submitted text appears to be a rearranged composite, not a verbatim quote from the cited URL or another reliable source. ([seczine.com](https://seczine.com/technology/2026/01/microsoft-names-mustafa-suleyman-ceo-of-ai-unit-calls-for-containment-first-approach/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Source seczine URL returned 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirms the quote is from Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. He stated: "Containment has to come first. Otherwise, alignment is the equivalent of asking nicely" and "You can't steer something you can't control." This is reflected in his X/Twitter posts and Microsoft AI communications. The vote 'for' the statement "Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment" aligns directly with his explicit advocacy for AI containment as a prerequisite to alignment. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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