Artificial Intelligence Thought Leader & Co-Founder of Inflection AI and DeepMind
Artificial Intelligence Thought Leader & Co-Founder of Inflection AI and DeepMind
Mustafa Suleyman leads Microsoft’s consumer AI business. Reporting directly to Microsoft’s CEO, Mustafa is responsible for expanding Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot, Bing search engine, and Edge internet browser.
Mustafa is the co-founder of Inflection AI, an AI-first consumer software company. Before that, he co-founded DeepMind, a leading AI company that was acquired by Google. There he was Head of Applied AI and ran a division called DeepMind for Google which was responsible for integrating the company’s technology across a wide range of Google products. He joined Google full-time in 2019, becoming VP of AI products & AI policy. In 2022, he joined Greylock as a Venture Partner, where he specializes in AI investing. He is the author of The Coming Wave, published by Crown in the US in September 2023. He is also on the Board of The Economist newspaper and is a Senior Fellow at The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, at Harvard Kennedy School.
Mustafa Suleyman warns that we are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa has been at the centre of this revolution.
In this conversation, Mustafa explores the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order and shares how we might contain them while we have the chance. The ultimate AI insider, Mustafa is well equipped to educate audiences on the “containment problem” — the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.