‘I think there’s no winning of AGI,’ says Microsoft AI Chief on Artificial General Intelligence hype

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft’s newly formed AI division, is pushing back against the tech industry’s intensifying obsession with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), characterising the “race” to reach it as a flawed and potentially harmful narrative.

In a series of recent public appearances, including a notable discussion on the Moonshots with Peter Diamandis podcast, the DeepMind co-founder argued that the term “AGI race” creates a false impression of a winner-take-all finish line that doesn’t exist in science or technology.