{"id":259216,"date":"2025-11-03T07:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259216\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:18:22","slug":"microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-to-developers-and-researchers-stop-doing-projects-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/259216\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman to developers and researchers: Stop &#8216;doing&#8217; projects that \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-to-developers-and-researchers-stop-pursuing-projects-that-.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman to developers and researchers: Stop 'doing' projects that \u2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has advised developers and researchers to stop pursuing projects that suggest artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of consciousness. He said this, asserting that only biological beings possess this trait and noted that the pursuit is misplaced. In a recent interview with CNBC at the AfroTech Conference, Suleyman said, \u201cI don\u2019t think that is work that people should be doing. If you ask the wrong question, you end up with the wrong answer. I think it\u2019s totally the wrong question.\u201d Suleyman has been a vocal opponent of the prospect of conscious AI, or AI services that could convince humans they are capable of suffering.In 2023, Suleyman co-authored the book \u201cThe Coming Wave\u201d and penned an essay titled, \u201cWe must build AI for people, not to be a person.\u201d His comments come as the generative AI market, led by companies like OpenAI, pushes toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Meanwhile, the AI companion market is growing with products from companies including Meta and Elon Musk\u2019s xAI.<\/p>\n<p>What Mustafa Suleyman said about AI having emotions<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the difference between AI becoming more capable and the idea of it having emotions, Suleyman said: \u201cOur physical experience of pain is something that makes us very sad and feel terrible, but the AI doesn\u2019t feel sad when it experiences \u2018pain.\u2019 It\u2019s a very, very important distinction. It\u2019s really just creating the perception, the seeming narrative of experience and of itself and of consciousness, but that is not what it\u2019s actually experiencing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>5 biggest AI announcements at Microsoft Build 2025<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the theory of biological naturalism, which suggests that consciousness depends on the processes of a living brain, Suleyman explained: \u201cThe reason we give people rights today is because we don\u2019t want to harm them, because they suffer. They have a pain network, and they have preferences which involve avoiding pain. These models don\u2019t have that. It\u2019s just a simulation.\u201dSuleyman also highlighted that the science of detecting consciousness is still in its early stages. While he acknowledged that different organisations may have their own research goals, he strongly opposed studying AI consciousness.\u201cThey\u2019re not conscious. So it would be absurd to pursue research that investigates that question, because they\u2019re not and they can\u2019t be,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has advised developers and researchers to stop pursuing projects that suggest artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,152723,152725,152726,152724,36070,254,255,64,63,2577,29134,152722,64258,152721,105],"class_list":["post-259216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-and-emotions","tag-ai-consciousness","tag-ai-emotions","tag-ai-ethics-and-rights","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai","tag-microsoft-ai-developments","tag-mustafa-suleyman","tag-mustafa-suleyman-ai-consciousness","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}