Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, is trying to walk a fine line. On the one hand, he thinks that the industry is taking AI in a dangerous direction by building chatbots that present as human.
On the other hand, Suleyman runs a product shop that must compete with those peers.
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With all that in mind, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into Suleyman’s views.
Last time we spoke, you told me that you weren’t interested in making a chatbot that would role-play personalities. That’s not true of the wider industry.
Yeah, we will never build sex robots. Sad in a way that we have to be so clear about that, but that’s just not our mission as a company.
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Is a no-flirting policy enough?
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It doesn’t have to be either a complete open book of emotional sensuality or availability—drawing people into a spiraled rabbit hole of intensity—or, like, a cold dry thing. There’s a huge spectrum in between, and the craft that we’re learning as an industry and as a species is to sculpt these attributes.
