India, Nov. 12 -- Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has once again sounded a warning as the race toward artificial superintelligence accelerates. Days after unveiling Microsoft's MAI Superintelligence Team, Suleyman said that while AI is advancing faster than ever, it must remain under human control. "We can't build superintelligence just for superintelligence's sake," he said. "It's got to be for humanity's sake, for a future we actually want to live in. It's not going to be a better world if we lose control of it."

The comments come as Microsoft moves into a new phase of AI development, one that Suleyman calls "AI self-sufficiency." The company has reportedly moved beyond the computing and model-size limits that were part of its ea...