Microsoft AI wants you to know that its work toward superintelligence involves keeping humans “at the top of the food chain.” In a lengthy blog post on Thursday, Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman highlighted the formation of a new team dedicated to developing a “humanist superintelligence” that’s “designed only to serve humanity.”

This kind of superintelligence, according to Suleyman, won’t be “an unbounded and unlimited entity with high degrees of autonomy” and will instead be “carefully calibrated, contextualized, within limits.” Suleyman joined Microsoft last year as the CEO of Microsoft AI, which has only recently launched its first in-house models for text, voice, and image generation.

Though Suleyman’s blog post says Microsoft AI will “reject narratives about a race to AGI,” the c

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