Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has fired a chilling shot across Mark Zuckerberg’s bow, repeating his stark warning that the unlimited, god-like superintelligence Meta is pouring billions into will not make the world better; it will end in catastrophe the moment humanity loses control of it.

Fresh from declaring Microsoft’s “AI self-sufficiency” after finally escaping the old OpenAI contract that capped how big a model they could train, Suleyman unveiled the company’s new MAI Superintelligence Team with a manifesto that rejects the entire AGI arms race narrative pushed by Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and others, calling it dangerous and reckless.

Instead of racing toward an “unbounded and unlimited entity with high degrees of autonomy,” Microsoft is betting everything on what Suleyman calls “Humanist Superintelligence”; powerful AI that is deliberately limited, carefully calibrated, and designed from the ground up to stay under human control while delivering massive real-world wins like medical diagnostics that already beat doctors by 65 percentage points and personalised education companions that could transform millions of lives.

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In a remarkably candid admission that stunned the industry, Suleyman asked the question every tech billionaire is dodging: “How are we going to contain a system that is, by design, intended to keep getting smarter than us?” His answer was brutal; no developer, no safety researcher, no policy expert on the planet has a reassuring solution, and pretending otherwise is suicidal arrogance.

While Meta continues burning tens of billions on raw capability with fewer visible safeguards, Microsoft is deliberately choosing the harder, costlier path because, in Suleyman’s words, “We are not building an ill-defined and ethereal superintelligence; we are building a practical technology explicitly designed only to serve humanity,” proving that in the race to god-like AI, the company that slows down might be the one that saves us all.

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