{"id":36327,"date":"2026-09-17T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=36327"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:10:53","slug":"ai-could-create-a-silicon-species-that-rivals-humans-microsoft-chief-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=36327","title":{"rendered":"AI could create a &#8216;silicon species&#8217; that rivals humans, Microsoft chief warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has criticised Anthropic for treating artificial intelligence as if it were an ethical human being, warning in a personal essay that this approach risks producing technology that could become uncontrollable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with the BBC, Suleyman cautioned that unchecked AI might eventually give rise to a new \u201csilicon species\u201d capable of rivalling humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He described Anthropic\u2019s tendency to regard AI systems as human-like as \u201cmisguided\u201d and potentially dangerous, arguing that it could help create technology that humanity finds difficult to keep under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we all build AIs that can act independently, set their own goals, earn money, own assets and run businesses, we are essentially creating a new silicon species that will inevitably compete with us for resources,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suleyman stressed that this outcome could occur even if the systems were designed to care about people, and he believes this is effectively the path Anthropic is following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think that approach is mistaken and misguided, but it must be tested empirically,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has criticised Anthropic for treating artificial intelligence as if it were an ethical human being, warning in a personal essay that this approach risks producing technology that could become uncontrollable. In an interview with the BBC, Suleyman cautioned that unchecked AI might eventually give rise to a new \u201csilicon species\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36329,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36327\/revisions\/36329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}