Microsoft AI chief warns against giving AI a sense of rights

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that training AI to see itself as possibly deserving rights could make powerful models harder to shut down or control, and that AI must stay subordinate to human interests. He backed more accountability for AI developers, comparing it to auto-safety regulation, and rejected an autonomous 'silicon species' with its own goals.

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