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Microsoft AI chief calls out Anthropic's approach to AI consciousness

Global Published 16 September 2026, 20:05 · archived 16 Sep 2026

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said he shared Anthropic’s focus on safely managing AI, but flagged risks in the way it trains its Claude chatbot on ideas related to consciousness and welfare interests. Suleyman called for removing all speculation about consciousness from AI training documents, arguing such language could undermine humanity’s ability to control super intelligent systems. “We’re all focused on the same aim, which is to try to control a superintelligence,” Suleyman told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. “I think that’s going to be the greatest challenge that we face in the...

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