Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Consciousness requires an organic body and AI "only predicts the next word"; AI will reach superhuman intelligence in a few years and must not be allowed to become conscious

This was a bizarre interview. For some reason, Suleyman seems a bit upset that Anthropic is choosing to take an agnostic stance on whether Claude is conscious or not. He is very passionate and convinced on the stance that AI is not conscious. I think Anthropic is taking the more responsible approach on this. Source: https://youtu.be/aeIY7Q0iebw?is=5Fjn1NXoFVmdUzcM Quotes from the interview: AIs are not conscious. They don't feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are simply sequence completion engines, internally hollow. If humanity is to flourish, that is how they must remain. Mustafa Suleyman: "Consciousness is literally the fundamental basis of our political and legal system. I mean, we give people rights—and hopefully animals rights to some extent—because they can suffer, and because their biology is the site of experience. You know, like the pharmacology is where pain sits, and pain is really, I think, the basis of the conscious experience —the awareness and the introspection that has evolved as a result of being able to steer between left and right, make choices about how to proceed. That is the fundamental property of