Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says AI acting independently is "seeding a new silicon species"

Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, said on the BBC’s Today programme that building artificial intelligence systems capable of acting independently, setting goals, making money, owning assets, and running companies could create a new kind of artificial entity competing with people for resources. He linked that approach to Anthropic, called it mistaken and misguided, and said the company should release data if it believes its path is safer; he instead favored systems that do not introspect. His comments came amid an industry debate over controlling advanced AI. King Charles separately warned at a Dumfries House technology summit that AI poses existential risks if misused and must serve humanity. Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger warned last week he believed there was more than a 10% chance AI could threaten humanity’s existence within ten years.