Mustafa Suleyman, an AI Pioneer who warned the world that AI will cause a human “catastrophe on an unimaginable scale,” has been selected by Microsoft to serve at a high level in its AI Department. Suleyman is the co-founder of DeepMind, a Google-owned research lab.
Microsoft hires expert who warned AI could cause ‘catastrophe on an unimaginable scale’ – nypost.com
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Microsoft hired renowned artificial intelligence pioneer Mustafa Suleyman – the co-founder of the Google-owned DeepMind research lab who has warned the emerging technology could a “catastrophe on an unimaginable scale.”
Suleyman, 39, will report directly to Microsoft boss Satya Nadella and will run the company’s consumer AI division, the company said. He will lead Microsoft’s efforts to build out its Copilot AI chatbot and to integrate AI features into the Bing search engine and Edge browser.
… The hiring was seen as a major coup for Microsoft as it looks to beat chief rival Google and others in the race to develop advanced AI. Microsoft is a chief investor in OpenAI, the firm best known for creating the ChatGPT chatbot and the Sora text-to-video generation tool.
However, Suleyman has repeatedly urged caution and the need for safe development of AI.
In his 2023 book “The Coming Wave,” Suleyman argued that AI, synthetic biology and other burgeoning technologies could allow “a diverse array of bad actors to unleash disruption, instability, and even catastrophe on an unimaginable scale.”
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