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Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman co-founded DeepMind and Inflection AI and is CEO of Microsoft AI; he argues powerful technology must be contained, that AI which seems conscious is a dangerous turn, and that an uncontrollable superintelligence would overwhelm us.
Roles
- 2010 – 2019Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, DeepMindHead of applied AI after Google's 2014 acquisition.Source →
- Dec 2019 – Jan 2022Vice President of AI Products and AI Policy, GoogleSource →
- Mar 2022 – Mar 2024Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Inflection AISource →
- 19 Mar 2024 – presentExecutive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft AI, MicrosoftLeads Copilot, Bing and Edge and the MAI models; announced a "humanist superintelligence" team in November 2025.Source →
On the record
Dec 2025 · Interview · BBC Radio 4 Today programme
If we can't control it, it isn't going to be on our side. It's going to overwhelm us
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft AI, Microsoft at the time
Reported by The Independent on 29 December 2025.
Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman warns against 'uncontrollable' AI →
6 Nov 2025 · Post · Microsoft AI
We are not building an ill-defined and ethereal superintelligence; we are building a practical technology explicitly designed only to serve humanity.
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft AI, Microsoft at the time
Announces Microsoft's superintelligence team, "not an unbounded and unlimited entity with high degrees of autonomy."
19 Aug 2025 · Post · mustafa-suleyman.ai
We must build AI for people; not to be a person.
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft AI, Microsoft at the time
Calls seemingly conscious AI "a dangerous turn in AI progress" that will fuel demands for AI rights.
Sept 2023 · Book · The Coming Wave (Crown, with Michael Bhaskar)
Containment is the overarching ability to control, limit, and, if need be, close down technologies at any stage of their development or deployment. … As the power of our tools grows exponentially and as access to them rapidly increases, so do the potential harms.
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Inflection AI at the time
The book was published in September 2023 and shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year.
30 May 2023 · Statement · Center for AI Safety
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Inflection AI at the time
Signed as CEO, Inflection AI.