Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman firmly rejects the notion of conscious AI, urging developers and researchers to abandon such pursuits as misguided and ethically fraught. Suleyman, a co-founder of DeepMind who joined Microsoft in 2024, emphasised that true consciousness is a biological phenomenon exclusive to living beings, incapable of replication by algorithms.

“They’re not conscious. So it would be absurd to pursue research that investigates that quehttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/02/microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman-only-biological-beings-can-be-conscious.html?&qsearchterm=mustafa%20suleymanstion, because they’re not and they can’t be,” Suleyman told CNBC, drawing on the philosophical framework of biological naturalism. He argued that AI systems, no matter how advanced, merely simulat

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