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Mustafa Suleyman on Intelligence and Power in the Twenty-First Century

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Technology

The ultimate guide to what we will likely see in the months to come as AI continues to reshape every sphere of our lives

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, knows what’s coming. And in September 2024 he returned to the Intelligence Squared stage to share his fresh perspective into what AI can and cannot achieve in the next waves of disruption. 

Suleyman is the ultimate AI insider. In March 2024, a few months after he was last on our stage, he became the CEO of Microsoft AI, a new division bringing together Microsoft’s major consumer AI products and teams. Previously he co-founded DeepMind and Inflection AI. 

Suleyman says AI represents nothing less than a step change in human capability and society and believes we are approaching a critical threshold in the history of humankind, introducing both risks and innovations on an awe-inspiring scale. 

Suleyman discussed what has changed in the world of AI since he first published his book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma. He shared the ultimate guide to what we will likely see in the months to come as AI continues to reshape business, the global economy, medicine, everyday life, the world of work and more. 

Speakers for the motion

  • Mustafa Suleyman

    CEO of Microsoft AI

Chair

  • Amol Rajan

    Radio 4 Today programme presenter, host of University Challenge and Amol Rajan Interviews.

Speakers are subject to change.

Speakers

Speaker

Mustafa Suleyman

CEO of Microsoft AI

CEO of Microsoft AI and author of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma. He is also the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company acquired by Google. After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022. The Coming Wave is his first book.
Host

Amol Rajan

Radio 4 Today programme presenter, host of University Challenge and Amol Rajan Interviews.

BBC Radio 4 Today programme and podcast presenter, host of University Challenge and presenter of the acclaimed Amol Rajan Interviews series with guests including Bill Gates, Tony Blair and Greta Thunberg.