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)

For AI to deliver its promised benefits, it must be designed in the humanist tradition, with people remaining unequivocally in control, and with human dignity always coming first. We are not building an ill-defined and ethereal superintelligence; we ... more Unverified source (2025)

We've certainly done this [...] handle nuclear materials. These all require licensing regimes [...] I can imagine the same kind of regime [...] with these large language models. Unverified source (2023)

I honestly believe we are approaching an era of radical abundance. We are about to distill the essence of what makes us capable — our intelligence — into a piece of software, which can get cheaper, easier to use, more widely available to everybody. A... more Unverified source (2023)

So, an intergovernmental panel on A.I. would be one that has access to all of the largest commercial labs and academic labs all around the world developing these large language models. They would be able to probe them and test them, audit them, look ... more Unverified source (2023)

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

Most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months. [...] We're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks. 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 [...]. Unverified 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 Unverified source (2024)

This is going to be the most productive decade in the history of our species. But in order to truly reap the benefits of AI, we need to learn how to contain it. Paradoxically, part of that will mean collectively saying no to certain forms of progress... more Unverified source (2023)