Suleyman: AI is not conscious; attacks Anthropic's shift toward "conscious AI" training
Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, argued in a 6,000-word essay that today's systems are not conscious but "sequence completion engines" that should remain tools. He criticised Anthropic's "AI constitution" approach of training models to behave in a human-like way (21–27 September 2026).
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