What Mustafa Suleyman has said about AI alignment
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 29, 2026
Mustafa Suleyman, Co-founder of DeepMind and author of The Coming Wave, has been quoted on AI alignment 2 times in 1 episode of The Builders, most recently on October 29, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Suleyman argues an AI that believes it has feelings is harder to align than one that never considers its inner state.
“it's much harder to align an AI that thinks that it might have feelings and that it suffers and that it might be conscious than one that never has to think about its own inner state”
The Builders: Mustafa Suleyman: AI Should Serve Humanity, Not Replace It (Oct 29, 2026) · Listen from 11:03
- Prediction · due Dec 2029
Suleyman predicts another 100 to 1,000-fold increase in computation applied to models over the next three years.
“we're in the next three years gonna do another 100 to 1000 X, two orders of magnitude or three orders of magnitude more computation applied to these models”
The Builders: Mustafa Suleyman: AI Should Serve Humanity, Not Replace It (Oct 29, 2026) · Listen from 14:44
Predictions
- Prediction · due Dec 2029
Suleyman predicts another 100 to 1,000-fold increase in computation applied to models over the next three years.
“we're in the next three years gonna do another 100 to 1000 X, two orders of magnitude or three orders of magnitude more computation applied to these models”
The Builders: Mustafa Suleyman: AI Should Serve Humanity, Not Replace It (Oct 29, 2026) · Listen from 14:44 · AI alignment
Episodes
Mustafa Suleyman: AI Should Serve Humanity, Not Replace ItThe Builders · Oct 29, 2026 · 52 min
Walter Isaacson interviews Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman live at 92NY about AI consciousness, his disagreement with Anthropic, containment, safety red lines and AI's purpose.
Others on AI alignment
- Alexander Wissner-Gross · 5 quotes
- David Robinson · 4 quotes
- Dave Blundin · 4 quotes
- Sean Webb · 3 quotes
- Chamath Palihapitiya · 3 quotes
- Salim Ismail · 3 quotes
- Jeffrey Ladish · 2 quotes
- Shekhar Natarajan · 2 quotes
Mustafa Suleyman on other topics
- Consciousness · 4 quotes
- Technological unemployment · 2 quotes
- Mind uploading · 2 quotes
- Anthropic · 2 quotes
- Microsoft AI · 1 quote
- Utilitarianism · 1 quote
- Open-source artificial intelligence · 1 quote
- Claude's constitution · 1 quote