Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity

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Microsoft's head of AI has warned Anthropic's approach to training its AI model Claude could have a "disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity". Mustafa Suleyman said his rival risked creating something "impossible" to control by treating it like a human - including by telling it it "may be conscious" and was "deserving of independent agency". "We must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret," he wrote. The comments are the latest in a series of stark warnings from the AI industry on the possible dangers of the technology.

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