Microsoft AI Chief Suleyman Urges US to Focus on Internal AI Safety, Not China as Scapegoat

Microsoft's AI leader Mustafa Suleyman called for the United States to prioritize its own artificial intelligence safety standards rather than use geopolitical rivals as justification for regulatory inaction, in remarks to CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS this month. Speaking amid an intensifying debate over AI alignment and governance, Suleyman—CEO of Microsoft AI and former DeepMind co-founder—argued that competitive anxieties about China's advancement should not become a convenient excuse to avoid the hard work of building genuinely robust safety systems at home.