208. Mustafa Suleyman: Is AI Actually Conscious?

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  • 28 September 2026

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Can Artificial Intelligence stay subordinate? Is Anthropic’s 100-Page constitution creating dangerous AI autonomy? Should AI models be granted legal personhood, rights, or financial compensation?


CEO of Microsoft AI, and co-founder and former head of AI at DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman, joins Rory Stewart to discuss all this and more.


If you'd like to listen to more of Mustafa Suleyman and his backstory, click here to find our previous interview with him from 2023.


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