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麻豆社 presenter Amol Rajan speaks to the British artificial intelligence entrepreneur Mustafa Suleyman, Chief Executive of Microsoft AI.

He believes in the enormous potential of AI to be a force for good in the world, changing how we live and work for the better. He is committed to developing a humanist superintelligence, one that always works to serve people and never vice versa. But he remains clear about what he sees as the risks, issuing a warning that without the right ethical safeguards, AI could grow powerful enough to overwhelm humanity. "As somebody who鈥檚 deeply techno-optimistic, I invite people to be also healthily afraid and sceptical," he says.

The son of a London taxi-driver and a nurse, he dropped out of Oxford University and by his mid-twenties had co-founded DeepMind, the pioneering artificial intelligence research lab. By the time it was sold to Google four years later in 2014, it was worth a reported $400 million.

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Presenter: Amol Rajan
Producers: Kate Collins, Laura Cooper and Lucy Sheppard
Editor: Justine Lang

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(Image: Mustafa Suleyman Credit: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)