Quoting Mustafa Suleyman

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Mustafa Suleyman warns against attributing feelings, preferences, or rights to AI models, arguing that such anthropomorphism could complicate AI containment and alignment efforts.

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# A quote from Mustafa Suleyman Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/16/mustafa-suleyman/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/16/mustafa-suleyman/) 16th September 2026 > We should not treat models as though they have feelings, preferences, rights, or any entitlement to our welfare\. Consciousness is the foundation of our ethical, legal, and political systems\. To invite another entity to share any flavor of these rights isn’t justified by the evidence and will make the AI containment and alignment challenge even harder\. —[Mustafa Suleyman](https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-about-model-welfare),A warning about ‘model welfare’ Posted[16th September 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/16/)at 4 pm ## Recent articles - [Generating running routes with GPT\-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/astra-running-routes/)\- 12th September 2026 - [OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/openai-agents-rubygems/)\- 12th September 2026 - [Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/on-navier-stokes/)\- 8th September 2026 This is a**quotation**collected by Simon Willison, posted on[16th September 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/16/)\. [microsoft134](https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft/)[ai2,236](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/)[generative\-ai1,982](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai/)[llms1,948](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/)[ai\-ethics343](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics/)

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