Microsoft AI Forms Team to Develop "Humanist Superintelligence" Focused on Serving Humanity
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Emma Roth
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Summary
Microsoft AI has formed a new team dedicated to developing "humanist superintelligence" designed to serve humanity while keeping humans "at the top of the food chain." The initiative, led by Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman, aims to create AI that is carefully calibrated and contextualized rather than an unbounded, autonomous entity. Suleyman emphasized that this superintelligence will have limits and be designed specifically to benefit humanity.
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· 3 pulledMicrosoft AI wants you to know that its work toward superintelligence involves keeping humans 'at the top of the food chain.'
This kind of superintelligence, according to Suleyman, won't be 'an unbounded and unlimited entity with high degrees of autonomy' and will instead be 'carefully calibrated, contextualized, within limits.'
Microsoft AI has formed a new team designed to work on 'humanist' superintelligence that's 'designed only to serve humanity.'
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