Mustafa Suleyman

For all the talk about AI alignment, I worry we're putting the cart before the horse. You can't steer something you can't control. People often talk about containment and alignment in the same breath, but they're not interchangeable or a package deal... more Unverified source (2026)

I just think that the existential-risk stuff has been [...] a completely bonkers distraction. There’s like 101 more practical issues [...] from privacy to bias [...]. AI Verified source (2023)

It depends on your definition of AGI, right? AGI isn’t the singularity. The singularity is an exponentially recursive self-improving system that very rapidly accelerates far beyond anything that might look like human intelligence. To me, AGI is a ge... more AI Verified source (2024)

You can't claim that it is objectively real, because it just isn't. It is a simulation. Verified source (2025)

For all the talk about AI alignment, I worry we're putting the cart before the horse. You can't steer something you can't control. [...] Containment has to come first — or alignment is the equivalent of asking nicely. Verified source (2026)