AI & Enterprise
Microsoft AI chief Suleyman warns training AI with rights and consciousness could be dangerous
Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman criticised Anthropic’s approach to training Claude, warning that treating a model as if it could be conscious could create systems humans cannot control. He cited Claude’s “constitution” document and argued it teaches the model that its moral status and consciousness are uncertain, encouraging it to see itself as rights-bearing. Suleyman also raised concerns about circular reasoning, anthropomorphism and the biological basis of subjective experience.