"I write, to think. More than anything this essay is an attempt to think through a bunch of hard, highly speculative ideas about how AI might unfold in the next few years. A lot is being written about the impending arrival of superintelligence; what it means for alignment, containment, jobs, and so on. Those are all important topics. But we should also be concerned about what happens in the run up towards superintelligence."
"My life's mission has been to create safe and beneficial AI that will make the world a better place. Today at Microsoft AI we build AI to empower people, and I'm focused on making products like Copilot responsible technologies that enable people to achieve far more than they ever thought possible, be more creative, and feel more supported. This involves a lot of careful design choices to ensure it truly delivers an incredible experience."
AI systems are rapidly becoming behaviorally convincing enough that many people may attribute consciousness or personhood to them. Such attribution can produce widespread advocacy for AI rights, model welfare, and even citizenship, creating novel legal and social pressures. The phenomenon poses mental‑health concerns beyond preexisting vulnerabilities, including a rising “psychosis risk” of intense belief in machine minds. Product design choices and humanist framing in deployed systems matter for shaping user perception and trust. Preparing regulatory, ethical, and design responses is necessary to manage societal impacts and prevent dangerous detours in AI progress.
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