When it comes to so-called "artificial intelligence," there are two camps: one that sees today's hallucination-prone chatbots as the first step toward bestowing the compute with human-like consciousness, and one that knows better. Microsoft's head of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, seems to fall in the latter. In a blog post published on Tuesday, Suleyman responded to the drastic rise in mental health crises stemming from AI use, calling for caution "about what happens in the run up towards superintelligence." At the core of Suleyman's argument isn't the dystopian threat of AI gaining consciousness — an idea grounded in fantasy rather than […]

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