Humanist Superintelligence
Microsoft AI's stated goal of building highly capable AI that stays in service of people rather than racing to surpass them.
Definition
Humanist Superintelligence is a framing put forward by Microsoft AI, led by Mustafa Suleyman, for how it wants to pursue very advanced AI: building state-of-the-art capabilities that are explicitly designed to serve humans and remain accountable to them, rather than treating ever-more-capable AI as a race toward autonomous systems that operate independently of people. It's presented as an alternative to framing AI progress purely as a race toward AGI or ASI for their own sake, emphasizing human benefit and control as the actual goal rather than a constraint added afterward. As with any single company's stated mission, it describes an intention and design philosophy rather than a technical guarantee, and it's worth watching whether products and policy actually follow it.