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Microsoft AI's Suleyman warns against granting AI models 'rights' or welfare status

Suleyman publishes essay warning against AI 'model welfare'

1 Sep 16 10:27 AM · 10d ago · 1 article · 1 post · 2 sources · development 1 of 3

Mustafa Suleyman argues AIs are sequence-completion engines with no consciousness or preferences, and that granting them rights or personhood would make alignment and containment 'may well be impossible.' He calls for urgent public debate and norms on how training documents like Anthropic's constitution are drafted.

Suleyman publishes essay warning against AI 'model welfare'
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“AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations.”

Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa SuleymanMustafa Suleyman Author of the essay, Microsoft AI CEOAnthropic AI developer, publisher of Claude's constitutionClaude AI model referenced as case study

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