Microsoft’s AI chief says superintelligence is near, but won’t take your job

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Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short — I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but also this is a real burner of an episode.

We covered everything from Mustafa’s approach to training new models to his criticisms of Anthropic talking about Claude as though it is conscious. Of course, we also talked about Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, how Mustafa is thinking about all the negative polling and political pushback around AI right now, and whether any of the consumer products are good enough to overcome it.

Like I said, it’s a burner.

Okay: Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. Here we go.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Mustafa Suleyman, you are the CEO of Microsoft AI. Welcome back to Decoder.

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