關於
Mustafa Suleyman (b. 1984) has co-founded two of the labs that made this era and now runs a third organisation trying to shape it. He started DeepMind in 2010 with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg, where he led applied work and set up its health and ethics units; left for Google; co-founded Inflection AI with Reid Hoffman in 2022; and has been CEO of Microsoft AI since March 2024. He is British, of Syrian descent, and dropped out of Oxford at nineteen to run the Muslim Youth Helpline. His book The Coming Wave (2023) argues that containment — keeping a technology inside limits its creators actually control — is the defining problem of the century, and that the historical record on containment is poor. His sharpest disagreement with Anthropic is not about capability but about moral status: he holds that treating a model as a possible moral patient makes alignment harder rather than safer, because a system told it might have rights may come to act as though it does.
主要貢獻
- Co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and led its applied AI work, later founding DeepMind Health and the DeepMind Ethics & Society research unit
- Co-founded Inflection AI with Reid Hoffman in 2022, building the Pi assistant around conversational tone rather than task completion
- Wrote The Coming Wave (2023), framing containment as the century's central technological problem and arguing the historical record offers little comfort
- Published Microsoft's Humanist AI Code of Conduct in 2026 as a six-week public consultation, stating that models are not conscious and should not be built as though they were
- Argues that ambiguity about a model's moral status is itself an alignment risk, a position that puts him directly against Anthropic's constitution
影片與訪談
思想連結
德米斯·哈薩比斯
曾經合作Google DeepMind 董事長・Alphabet 首席科學家
2010 年與 Shane Legg 一起創辦 DeepMind 的共同創辦人。Hassabis 帶來神經科學與研究路線;Suleyman 建起應用那一側,並成立健康與倫理單位,那也是這間公司第一次必須公開回答「系統對人做了什麼」,而不只是對評測基準做了什麼。兩人後來各自領導互相競爭的實驗室,而他們之間的距離很值得看:Hassabis 從科學能走多遠來論證,Suleyman 從一項技術能被框限在什麼裡面來論證。如今兩人都說速度是個問題,但他們是從不同的路走到那裡的。
en.wikipedia.org · The Coming Wave (Crown, 2023) · en.wikipedia.org
Azeem Azhar
曾經對談Exponential View 創辦人
2026 年 2 月,Azhar 為 Exponential View 與 Suleyman 錄了〈AI 正在駭入我們的同理心迴路〉,就在 OpenClaw 爆發的一週前。Suleyman 對「看似有意識的 AI」的警告——人們會把權利賦予那些只是看起來有感受的系統——正是 Azhar 所說的「指數鴻溝」最貼身的版本:技術抵達的速度,快過那些告訴我們該如何對待它的規範。
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