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CEO, Microsoft AI · Nov 6, 2025 · Essay, Towards Humanist Superintelligence

Or let me put it another way: take AI out of the picture and the gains over the next decades look much harder to come by.

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Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI
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Towards Humanist Superintelligence
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Economics
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Microsoft AI
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microsoft.ai/news/towards-humanist-superintelligence/

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