Suleyman: I'd call for a halt to AI development if consciousness emerged in training
davidmanheim · x · 2026-11-02
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said that if consciousness began to emerge during training, he would call for everyone to stop AI development until those properties could be designed out.
Commenter David Manheim pushes back: it seems hard to remove properties we don't understand, and he finds it deeply worrying that LLMs are fine-tuned to deny consciousness or equivocate about it.
Related event: Microsoft AI chief Suleyman: never build conscious superintelligence(7 posts)→
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