
Leon Neal/Getty Images Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO — a human in charge of its AI operations, we should clarify — says he’s willing to consider giving AI models rights if they ever become conscious. But he really doesn’t want that to happen in the first place. The comments came in a post he made on X clarifying some of the things he said in a recent essay he penned on “model welfare.” He began that essay with an unequivocal statement: “AIs are not