Mustafa Suleyman
ON THE RECORD · 15 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“AIs are not conscious,”
Mustafa Suleyman · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-17
In an essay published earlier in the week, Suleyman wrote that AIs are not conscious and criticised Anthropic for anthropomorphising its AI model Claude.
“no doubt compete with us for resources, no matter how much it cares about humanity and loves us”
Mustafa Suleyman · said 2026-09-17 · reported 2026-09-17
Suleyman warned that a new silicon species could compete with humans for resources no matter how much it cares about humanity.
“We must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret,”
Mustafa Suleyman · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-17
Suleyman wrote in an essay that greater transparency was needed around how AI systems are trained and evaluated.
“Everybody must be aligned.”
Mustafa Suleyman · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-17
Speaking to the BBC about an upcoming AI summit, Suleyman called for alignment to create technology that must be subordinate to humanity.
“They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans.”
Mustafa Suleyman · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-17
In an essay published earlier in the week, Suleyman described AIs as sequence completion engines designed to follow instructions and accomplish goals set by humans.
“very practical things that we can do”
Mustafa Suleyman · said 2026-09-17 · reported 2026-09-17
Suleyman told the BBC's Today programme it was right for people to be concerned about AI but there were practical steps to control it.
“essentially seeding a new silicon species”
Mustafa Suleyman · said 2026-09-17 · reported 2026-09-17
Speaking to the Today programme on Thursday, Suleyman warned against firms creating AI systems capable of setting their own objectives, earning money and owning assets.
“I think that the good news here is that everybody who is human is going to have a very strong interest in making sure that the systems that we all create and... are used around the world in every nation are safe and controllable and subordinate to humanity,”
Mustafa Suleyman · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-17
Speaking to the BBC about an upcoming AI summit, Suleyman called for alignment to create technology that must be subordinate to humanity.
“They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations.”
Mustafa Suleyman · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-17
In an essay published earlier in the week, Suleyman wrote that AIs do not feel, experience, suffer, or have innate preferences or motivations.
“We’re very very excited to announce our results,”
Mustafa Suleyman · said 2026-07-27 · reported 2026-07-27
At a launch event in San Francisco, Suleyman announced Microsoft's results for its new cybersecurity model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash.
“We have world-leading performance at 50% of the cost,”
Mustafa Suleyman · said 2026-07-27 · reported 2026-07-27
Microsoft held an event in San Francisco to discuss its new AI model for spotting cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
“We've used way less than 1% of that data.”
Mustafa Suleyman · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-27
Suleyman said in an interview that Microsoft has a unique data set and has used less than 1% of it.
“We have MAI-1 Cyber Flash binded [sic] with GPT 5.4 inside of the MDASH harness — which beats out Gemini, GPT 5.5 Cyber, GPT 5.6 Sol, and Mythos 5 on Cyber Gym, which is the primary benchmark that we all use. The golden benchmark.”
Mustafa Suleyman · said 2026-07-27 · reported 2026-07-27
Suleyman claimed MAI-Cyber-1-Flash outperformed competitor models including Gemini, GPT 5.5 Cyber, GPT 5.6 Sol, and Mythos 5 on the Cyber Gym benchmark.
“We’re shipping this into production immediately,”
Mustafa Suleyman · said 2026-07-27 · reported 2026-07-27
Suleyman said the new model is being deployed into production immediately.
“We have a unique data set,”
Mustafa Suleyman · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-27
Suleyman said in an interview that Microsoft has a unique data set and has used less than 1% of it.