{"slug": "quoting-mustafa-suleyman", "title": "Quoting Mustafa Suleyman", "summary": "Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman argued that AI models should not be treated as having feelings, preferences, rights, or any entitlement to human welfare, writing that \"consciousness is the foundation of our ethical, legal, and political systems.\" Suleyman said granting models any flavor of those rights is not justified by the evidence and would make the AI containment and alignment challenge even harder.", "body_md": "We should not treat models as though they have feelings, preferences, rights, or any entitlement to our welfare. Consciousness is the foundation of our ethical, legal, and political systems. To invite another entity to share any flavor of these rights isn’t justified by the evidence and will make the AI containment and alignment challenge even harder.\n\n— [Mustafa Suleyman](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-about-model-welfare), A warning about ‘model welfare’\n\nTags: [ai-ethics](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [microsoft](https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-mustafa-suleyman", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/16/mustafa-suleyman/", "published_at": "2026-09-16 16:00:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 16:11:10.025029+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Mustafa Suleyman", "Microsoft"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-mustafa-suleyman", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-mustafa-suleyman.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-mustafa-suleyman.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-mustafa-suleyman.jsonld"}}