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Mustafa Suleyman, Artificial Intelligence pioneer: People should be healthily afraid of AI

Mustafa Suleyman, Artificial Intelligence pioneer: People should be healthily afraid of AI

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Amol Rajan speaks to Mustafa Suleyman, the British Artificial Intelligence pioneer

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BBC presenter Amol Rajan speaks to the British artificial
intelligence entrepreneur Mustafa Suleyman, Chief Executive of
Microsoft AI.

He believes in the enormous potential of AI to be a force for
good in the world, changing how we live and work for the better.
He is committed to developing a humanist superintelligence, one
that always works to serve people and never vice versa. But he
remains clear about what he sees as the risks, issuing a warning
that without the right ethical safeguards, AI could grow powerful
enough to overwhelm humanity. "As somebody who’s deeply
techno-optimistic, I invite people to be also healthily afraid
and sceptical," he says.

The son of a London taxi-driver and a nurse, he dropped out of
Oxford University and by his mid-twenties had co-founded
DeepMind, the pioneering artificial intelligence research lab. By
the time it was sold to Google four years later in 2014, it was
worth a reported $400 million.

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Presenter: Amol Rajan Producers: Kate Collins, Laura Cooper and
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(Image: Mustafa Suleyman Credit: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)