Mustafa Suleyman is worried about AI misleading people into thinking it’s conscious.
The Microsoft AI CEO calls this “Seemingly Conscious AI” and warns it’s “inevitable and unwelcome.”
In a personal essay, he said there should be guardrails to ensure people don’t become disconnected from reality.
There may be no evidence that AI is conscious, but Mustafa Suleyman is concerned that it might become advanced enough to convince some people that it is.
In a personal essay published Tuesday, the Microsoft AI CEO described this phenomenon as “Seemingly Conscious AI,” which he defined as having “all the hallmarks of other conscious beings and thus appears to be conscious.”
Its arrival could be “dangerous” for society, Suleyman wrote, because it could lead to people forming attachments to AI and advocating for AI rights.
“It disconnects people from reality, fraying fragile social bonds and structures, distorting pressing moral priorities,” he said.
Suleyman, who previously cofounded DeepMind and Inflection, was clear that there is currently “zero evidence” that AI is conscious.
He said, however, that he was “growing more and more concerned” about so-called AI psychosis, a term increasingly being used to describe when people form delusional beliefs after interacting with chatbots.
“I don’t think this will be limited to those who are already at risk of mental health issues,” Suleyman wrote. “Simply put, my central worry is that many people will start to believe in the illusion of AIs as conscious entities so strongly that they’ll soon advocate for AI rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship.
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently said that most ChatGPT users can “keep a clear line between reality and fiction or role-play, but a small percentage cannot.” Meanwhile, David Sacks, the White House’s AI czar, has compared AI psychosis to the “moral panic” of social media’s early days.
Suleyman predicted that Seemingly Conscious AI, or SCAI, could arrive in two to three years, and said it’s both “inevitable and unwelcome.”
Such systems would have traits like empathetic personalities, the ability to recall more interactions with users, and greater autonomy, among other characteristics.
The rise of vibe coding means that anyone with a laptop, “some cloud credits,” and the right natural language prompts could make it easier to reproduce SCAI, he said.
Suleyman, who moved to Microsoft in 2024 to spearhead the development of its AI tool Copilot, called on companies to refrain from describing their AI as conscious as they pursue superintelligence, which is when AI surpasses humans at most intellectual tasks.
“AI companions are a completely new category, and we urgently need to start talking about the guardrails we put in place to protect people and ensure this amazing technology can do its job of delivering immense value to the world,” Suleyman added.
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Yes, the President has been through a war caused by the left. How many years have the left been hitting on him. Could Mr. Black or any of us survive what the President has been through fighting for our country. Just think the amount of taxpayer funds the left has spent for what by trying to ruin him – not their personal money – but our money. There should be a law available to protect the President to stop wasting time and our money on stupidity. I bet the left wouldn’t have spent their personal money like they have wasted the taxpayers’ money and the time involved?
The left put the American people through Covid, religious, and guerrilla wars during their time in office.
Is Mr. Black still fighting for the left’s Progressiveness/Islam ideology which has no similarity to our way of life with the Constitution. The left hasn’t used the Constitution for 12 years. We almost lost our country – if it wasn’t for the election of President Trump. He didn’t put the country in the state it is now. Obama/Biden did. He is trying to put it back together and with what the Democrats did to it – people have had to suffer in order to put it back together. The left made our dollar fall on purpose. They were deliberately trying to make the country fail. To think that the left went along with Obama tells me that something was missing in the minds of the left. I still can’t believe they blindly followed him into the valley of no return.
What the left has done to our country is unforgiveable and when a person like Mr. Black is so mixed up in his thinking it boggles my mind. The sooner our attorney general moves the needle to give justice to the American people who have suffered through 12 years of DOGE proving the left was stealing/looting/lying and a debt, 32 trillion, AND stealing our real DEMOCRACY by turning our country into NOTHING.
Mr. Black is trying to “rain” on our parade
And, trying to convince us that it is wrong for us to want to keep our Constitution and bill of rights. What is wrong and how does he reverse the roll of President Trump when it was starting with Bush I/Obama/Biden stealing our DEMOCRACY. It is beyond my thinking how people get so mixed up like Mr. Black.
The problem is Hollyweed – when the actors can’t seem to stop portraying the roles they play and bring them into real life it causes havoc on the rest of us. The person’s mind is damaged and they can’t get back to reality. That has caused us to experience this in our own lives as this man has proven by trying to weave this into our minds that he is right. Can he show us one country in the world who has communism/socialism where people are free and happy?
When he wanted to elect a person for president who can’t put two sentences together and end up making any sense and then he wants to elect a person for vice-president who can’t even run a state. He is the problem not the American people.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty
The President of the United States has cankles. The condition, known as chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), just means his veins aren’t working great. It’s common, particularly among the elderly—a population group which includes our nearly 80-year-old POTUS.
Of all the things likely to kill a man of Trump’s age and apparent girth, medical professionals seem to think CVI isn’t high on the list. Still, the condition is yet another data point highlighting the decline of the Donald.
Physical and mental health, of course, should never be diagnosed by a basic cable comedian such as myself. But I’m going to do so anyway. As a layman, I see an old guy in a rumpled suit struggling to walk in a straight line. I see an old guy who cannot form a cogent paragraph. I see an old guy who spackles his face—and his hands—with so much make-up it belies a grasp of self-awareness.
One treatment for cankles—particularly following a long, cross-country flight to Alaska for a geopolitical summit, could be decompression socks. / Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty
Common symptoms and causes of Trump’s chronic venous insufficiency
But I’m not sure they’re particularly salient. It’s not like Trump is the first frail or sickly president. Would, say, the Reagan second administration have been any different if he hadn’t been entering the early stages of Alzheimer’s? What about America’s war policy under the frail FDR?
Trump is old and fat and crazy. He’s going to die relatively soon, one way or the other. Do I think he’ll die in office? I doubt it. Even if he did, his lackeys at the Heritage Foundation and Peter Thiel’s Palantir will Weekend at Bernie’s that mofo if they have to in order to get their oppressive agenda passed.
For all of his awfulness and unlawfulness, Trump is only a symptom of the larger cancer eating the nation. When we speculate on his health, what we’re really expressing is our anxiety about America as a whole. Would we better or worse off if he were to go? Impossible to say. The only thing we can say with any degree of certainty is we would have been better off had he not arrived in the first place.
President Donald Trump raises a fist as he boards Air Force One before departing from Anchorage, Alaska after a summit with the Russia’s Vladimir Putin on August 15, 2025. / ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images
Just like how Russia won’t turn around when Putin falls out of his own palace window, what ails the United States today won’t be resolved with the passing of one of its central figures. Our problems are deep—deeper even than the pools of purple liquid collecting in Trump’s lower limbs. The man may have xacerbated those problems, but he didn’t cause them, and his eventual passing will not solve them.
(Since when did Mr. Black become a doctor?)
A nation such as ours should never be in a position to worry too much about the health of its leader because we’re designed to not be dependent on a single person. That’s the whole point of a democracy. We fought a king because too much power in the hands of too few leads to bad outcomes for too many. If we’re so worried about our president’s health, regardless of who is president, it leads me to believe that our presidents have too much power. This one certainly does.
So yes, it’s dishy to wag our tongues over Trump’s occasional and outlandish medical reports—a perfect human specimen! The tallest, handsomest man who ever lived! The vigor of a teenager!—but my concern isn’t for his actuarial table. It’s for the millions of people whose lives he’s put at risk. People reliant on USAID. People who fled violence in their home nations only to be denied entry to ours. People losing their livelihoods because of these tariffs. People whose own healthcare is at risk with his cuts to Medicaid. His squandered life doesn’t mean sh-t to me. But just because he screwed up his own life doesn’t mean we ought to allow him to rob people of theirs.
I will never wish for the death of another. Personally, I hope Donald J. Trump has a long and healthy life— that he makes it to 110. 120, even. And I want him to spend those years as mentally sharp as possible. The only thing is, though, I want him to live them out inside of an 8×8 federal prison cell.
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Are you sure you aren’t mixed up and talking about Obama/Biden? Biden was really sick and did Mr. Black write anything questioning his ability. If not, that ends up on the question platter (?).
Why are the Democrats so afraid of a peace deal between Russia/Ukraine? Is it because of the Democrats/Biden investigation being exposed in their dealings with Ukraine?
How many years have we been down this Democrat “road of despair?” The left has worked so hard to destroy “the peace-maker” – twenty-four hours a day – since we knew after Bush I’s throat cut they were in bed with the Democrats. During the Obama/Biden’s administration, they tried to destroy him and we know that story well, especially now with the DOJ/grand jury road show exposing all of their crimes, one by one. The lefties think if they keep trying “make him sick” after not exposing the real sickie person, Biden, they will get rid of him.
So, day in day out, they have strived to print after print – that something is wrong with our President. Nothing he does makes them feel good – only evil. But, yet, Biden was not sick even one day while in office. Now they seemed to have become physicians over night and give us a daily dose of symptoms.
So, the following is no different.
|It seems the Democrats are the sick ones who need help.
Why is all of this so important – because with the DOJ/Grand Jury, it will part the waves of those who were responsible for the demise of our country under the Democrats non-leadership.
It tell us a lot when the Democrats state – President Trump did not get anything? What was he supposed to get – he is only the “go between” to pull two sides together?
Peacemaker – a person who brings about peace, especially by reconciling adversaries.
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I don’t know why, but few are saying what’s plainly obvious about the president’s “summit” with his Russian counterpart. He’s afraid of him.
Donald Trump made all kinds of noise about “severe consequences” that Vladimir Putin would face if he did not agree to a ceasefire with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the war in Ukraine.
Trump created conditions, however feeble they may have seemed, in which he appeared to negotiate from a position of strength. “I’ve solved six wars in the last six months,” he said before the trip, all lies.
Then, when the moment came, nothing. Trump got nothing.
Not so for Putin.
“The extraordinary meeting at Anchorage’s Elmendorf Air Force base has ended Putin’s pariah status and brought Washington’s stance on the war closer to Moscow’s,” the Financial Timesreported Saturday.
“And Putin did not need to budge an inch.”
Liberals and Democrats tend to think Donald Trump gets along with Putin due to them being birds of a feather. Putin is a strongman. Trump is a strongman. Both love power. Both hate liberal democracy. While true, that doesn’t explain the president’s dramatic heel-turn.
But fear does.
The White House clearly believed it was important, not only for the meeting but for the president’s image at home, for him to look strong beforehand. Professor Heather Cox Richardson has the context:
“US envoy Steve Witkoff had been visiting Moscow for months to talk about a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine when he heard through a back channel that Putin might be willing to talk to Trump in person to offer a deal. On August 6, after a meeting in Moscow, Witkoff announced that Russia was ready to retreat from some of the land it occupies in Ukraine. This apparent concession came just two days before the August 8 deadline Trump had set for severe sanctions against Russia unless it agreed to a ceasefire.”
But then, Putin said not gonna happen. Moreover, Putin said Trump really got a raw deal with the 2020 election. He totally won. So unfair! And with that combo of flex and flattery, Putin “got what he wanted — to play for time and press his military advantage over Ukraine,” exiled Russian political scientist Ilya Matveyev told the Financial Times.
Here’s how it looked to Fox reporter Jacqui Heinrich: “The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left.”
She went on:
“Of course, that is only the piece of the picture we have right now and certainly President Trump, who is the host and who is the president, would not want to enable something that would make him look weak.”
“If the US is not willing to use any economic, military, or political tools to help Ukraine, if Trump will not put any diplomatic pressure on Putin or any new sanctions on Russian resources, then the US president’s fond wish to be seen as a peacemaker can be safely ignored,” she said
“It was embarrassing for Americans to welcome a notorious wanted war criminal on their territory. It was humiliating to watch an American president act like a happy puppy upon encountering the dictator of a much poorer, much less important state, treating him as a superior. It’s excruciating to imagine how badly Trump’s diplomatic envoy … misunderstood his last meeting with Putin in Moscow if he thought that the Alaska summit was going to be successful.”
I don’t know if Putin has something on the president (kompromat). I don’t know if Trump is in Putin’s pocket. I can speculate, but I don’t know. What I do know is Trump talked a good game and choked. I know he humiliated himself and America. And I know something else.
All this is rooted in cowardice. It’s safe to attack friends, because they won’t fight back, because they’re friends, but it’s not safe to attack enemies, because they will fight back, and because they are enemies.
Trump’s MO has always been to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants, safe in the knowledge that no one has the will to stop him. That holds up as long as the “no one” in question is American or an American ally. Actual enemies, though? Nuh-uh.
Trump was “very tough” with Zelensky the last time he was at the Oval Office. (He will probably be “very tough” with him today.) But that’s because Trump knows that Zelensky will never fight back, as Zelensky needs America’s support to defeat an even more malicious opponent.
But Putin?
He gets smiles, handshakes, the red-carpet treatment. He gets photos of himself riding in “The Beast)” with the United States president and of American troops seeming to kneel in front of his plane, all of which is for the purpose of make believing back home that Russia is once again America’s equal and that the glory days of empire are soon to return.
All because Trump is scared.
It’s a pattern we’ve seen so often Robert Armstrong came up with an acronym to memorialize it: TACO or “Trump Always Chickens Out.” Trump “does not have a very high tolerance for market and economic pressure, and will be quick to back off when tariffs cause pain,” he said.
Same thing with foreign affairs. According to one analysis, Trump has threatened “severe consequences” 22 times against adversaries, but pulled the trigger just twice. He has chickened out even in the face of America’s weakest foes. For instance, the Taliban conceded absolutely nothing in exchange for American troops leaving the country in 2021.
Liberals and Democrats spend a lot of time thinking about the unseen. Is Trump compromised? Is he in Russian pay? And so on. But we don’t spend enough time on the seen, which is damning enough all by itself.
In the wake of President Donald Trump‘s executive order outlawing debanking, major bank executives told Fox News Digital that they were under pressure by the Obama and Biden administrations to deny services to individuals and businesses for political reasons.
“Those pressures were very, very real. When your regulator gives you a suggestion, it’s not a suggestion, it’s an order. The political stuff is very real, those pressures are real,” a senior banking executive told Fox News Digital.
Debanking refers to the practice of banks closing accounts or denying services to individuals or businesses, often with no explanation. The practice originated as part of federal anti-money laundering laws and regulations. An entity can be debanked after its transactions are marked suspicious, but in recent years, conservative and religious groups have accused banks of discriminating against them for their beliefs.
Fox News Digital spoke with two executives at leading U.S. banks, who asked to remain anonymous, fearing reprisals.
The executives said that ambiguity in federal laws was exploited by regulators under the Obama and Biden administrations in order to pursue political objectives. According to one executive, banks were pressured to deny services to certain industries as part of Operation Choke Point and Operation Choke Point 2.0.
“When there’s ambiguity in the law, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for a long time the beholder was the Obama and Biden administration,” the official said.
A House Oversight Committee report found that “Operation Choke Point,” a DOJ task force whose aim was to “choke out” legal companies disfavored by the Obama administration, worked with bank regulators to label certain industries, including firearms sales, as “high risk.”
Trump ended “Operation Choke Point” in 2017 during his first term. However, a House Financial Services Committee hearing last week heard accusations that former President Joe Biden had rebooted the initiative and targeted crypto firms for debanking as part of “Operation Choke Point 2.0.”
Trump claimed to be a victim of debanking, and accused JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and others of refusing more than $1 billion in his deposits. First lady Melania Trump wrote in her memoir that she and her son Barron were debanked, as well.
“I was shocked and dismayed to learn that my long‑time bank decided to terminate my account and deny my son the opportunity to open a new one. … This decision appeared to be rooted in political discrimination, raising serious concerns about civil rights violations,” Melania wrote.
“We welcome the Trump administration’s efforts to provide regulatory clarity to banks. We’ve provided detailed proposals and will continue to work with the administration and Congress to improve the regulatory framework,” Bank of America told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Former Republican senator Sam Brownback accused JPMorgan Chase of having debanked his nonprofit, the National Committee for Religious Freedom, in 2022. JPMorgan maintains that they never engaged in political debanking, but updated their code of conduct to state that they do not discriminate based on political views or religious beliefs in 2025 — which the bank stated was merely the codification of existing policy.
“We don’t close accounts for political reasons, and we agree with President Trump that regulatory change is desperately needed. We’re pleased to see the White House is addressing this issue, for which we’ve been advocating for many years, and look forward to working with them to get this right,” a JPMorgan representative told Fox News Digital in a statement.
According to Inspire Investing CFA Tim Schwarzenberger, whose firm has been deeply involved with combating debanking, banks would use the criteria of “reputational risk” to deny services to politically disfavored groups and individuals.
Trump’s order, entitled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” which he signed Thursday, promised to ban banks from denying services to a customer based off of their political views or other beliefs. The order prohibits banks from using “reputational risk” as a criterion to deny someone services in a politicized way.
“The executive order really is a breakthrough moment,” Schwarzenberger told Fox News Digital.
Another senior banking executive said that negative news coverage was considered criteria for “reputational risk.” During the period between the 2020 presidential election and Trump’s return to the Oval Office in 2024, he was subject to a flurry of lawsuits and negative press. Banks, according to the official, responding to the wishes of regulators, would use the negative press directed at conservatives as a pretext to debank them.
“It’s all kind of set up, it’s like somebody set the table, and it all ends up focusing on Republicans and conservatives,” the executive said.
The executive added that banks were under constant regulatory pressure to file more “suspicious activity reports,” reports submitted to the Treasury about unusual banking activity, and to debank more customers. He said the regulators didn’t need to explicitly tell banks to deny services to any particular individual or business. The administration’s preferences were well known, and the banks were expected to comply.
The first banking executive said that while regulators may have good intentions, their worldviews would inevitably influence their decisions and that there were “real reasons to think there was political considerations.” Rather than get on the wrong side of the regulators, banks would preemptively refuse to take certain clients.
“It’s better for us to just not take on certain business if we suspect an examiner can come in and say six months ago you shouldn’t have taken this client,” the bank official told Fox News Digital.
Schwarzenberger told Fox News Digital that there is reason for optimism that debanking for political reasons will become a thing of the past, and pointed to commitments that banks made on their own before Trump’s executive order was issued.
In addition to JPMorgan, Bank of America, CitiGroup and PNC Bank have all taken steps to reassure customers that they do not discriminate based on political or religious views.
When reached for comment, Citi referred Fox News Digital to a June statement which said that the bank “has always been fully committed to treating all current and potential clients fairly, and we have policies, procedures and controls in place for this express purpose.”
PNC declined to comment.
Representatives for Obama and Biden didn’t respond to a request for comment.
This is what happens when the voters elect people who do not follow the Constitution or do not have American values. Think about that when you vote. Think about what DOGE found out how crooked the Biden/Obama administrations were.
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