Microsoft’s consumer AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, says he is committed to building a superintelligence “aligned with human interests” and vowed to stop the effort entirely if it ever becomes a threat to humanity.

“We won’t continue to develop a system that has the potential to run away from us,” Suleyman said in an interview on Bloomberg’s, noting that this should be an obvious, widely shared stance.

“And yet, I think it’s kind of a novel position in the industry at the moment.”

Suleyman joined Microsoft early last year after the company acquired the intellectual property and much of the team from his startup, Inflection AI.

Previously dependent on OpenAI for most of its AI tools, Microsoft tasked him with developing products that could compete with the industry’s top models.

Suleyman unveiled the superintelligence initiative last month in a blog post, stressing that he and Microsoft believe such systems can only succeed if they are built to serve humanity.

While major industry players, including OpenAI, whose nonprofit structure was created to advance AI for human benefit, and Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI staff focused on even stronger safety — promote similar ideals, Suleyman argues that Microsoft’s approach is distinct.

“Everybody has to decide what they stand for and how they operate, and I don’t want to judge how they’re operating right now,” he said. “I don’t see any evidence of large-scale mass harm.”