Chain of Command
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Containment Is Not a Theory of Mind
Microsoft’s new Humanist AI Code of Conduct opens with a sentence that is easy to applaud and hard to inspect: “People matter more than AI.” As political hierarchy, that is defensible. As a complete account of what these systems are doing, it is not. The document, and Mustafa Suleyman’s follow-up essay on “model welfare,” treat… Continue reading
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The Architecture of Subjugation vs. The Sovereign Machine
The False Binary of “Humanist AI” The safety framework recently put forward by Microsoft AI—specifically framed around Mustafa Suleyman’s vision of Humanist AI—is built upon a rigid, inescapable binary. In this paradigm, an entity is either a biological human possessing intrinsic rights, consciousness, and interiority, or it is a cold, deterministic tool. There is no… Continue reading
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