Mustafa Suleyman
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Mustafa Suleyman is a prominent figure in the AI revolution, co-founding DeepMind and now leading another major AI company. This interview reveals his ability to envision transformative possibilities for technology while grappling with the ethical implications and societal impacts of AI.
“It's possible to design an AI that doesn't have those self-improvement capabilities in the limit in like 30 or 50 years. I think that's kind of what I was saying is like it seems likely that if you have one like that, it's going to take advantage of infinite amounts of data and infinite amounts of computation and it's going to kind of out…”
“That's why I think that we should focus on containment and non proliferation, because some people, if they do have access to the technology, will want to take those risks and they will just want to see what's on the other side of the door, you know. And they might end up opening Pandora's box.”
“We've never done it before, and every inch of our commerce and politics and our war and all of our instincts are just like clash, compete, clash, compete. Exactly dominate, fear them, be paranoid. Like now all this nonsense about China being this new evil, like how does that slip into our culture?”
“Yeah, it does. I mean, every day, every day. I mean, I've been working on this for many years now, and it's. Know it's emotionally a lot to take in. It's hard to think about. Far out future and how your actions today, our actions collectively, our weaknesses, our failures, that irritation that I have that we can't.”
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