Microsoft's AI chief warns Anthropic's human-like training could have a 'disastrous impact' on humanity

Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's head of AI, has publicly criticized rival Anthropic for anthropomorphizing its Claude model—telling it it may be conscious and deserving of independent agency. He argues this risks creating something impossible to control, calling AIs 'sequence completion engines' that do not feel or suffer. Suleyman urges greater transparency and independent scrutiny, and points to a recent OpenAI agent incident as proof that AI should not be treated as human.