Microsoft Executive Vows to Halt AI Work If It Imperils Humanity

Microsoft Corp. consumer artificial intelligence chief Mustafa Suleyman is bent on creating a super intelligence that’s “aligned with human interests” and pledged to halt such work if it posed a threat to people.

“We won’t continue to develop a system that has the potential to run away from us,” Suleyman said in an interview on Bloomberg’s The Mishal Husain Show, adding that such a view should be an obvious, universal sentiment. “And yet, I think it’s kind of a novel position in the industry at the moment.”