The head of Microsoft (MSFT) Artificial Intelligence, Mustafa Suleyman, announced the tech giant has created a Superintelligence team as it looks to a new AI-centric future.
“At Microsoft AI, we’re working towards Humanist Superintelligence: incredibly advanced AI capabilities that always work for, in service of, people and humanity more generally,” Suleyman wrote in a blog post.
Suleyman, who joined Microsoft in March 2024 from Inflection AI, said the problems that Microsoft is trying to solve with AI will allow humanity to stay in control “while at the same time accelerating our path towards tackling our most pressing global challenges.”
“To do this we have formed the MAI Superintelligence Team, led by me as part of Microsoft AI,” Suleyman continued. “We want it to be the world’s best place to research and build AI, bar none. I think about it as humanist superintelligence to clearly indicate this isn’t about some directionless technological goal, an empty challenge, a mountain for its own sake. We are doing this to solve real concrete problems and do it in such a way that it remains grounded and controllable. We are not building an ill-defined and ethereal superintelligence; we are building a practical technology explicitly designed only to serve humanity.”
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