Microsoft's head of AI Mustafa Suleyman made some bold promises in which direction the company's AI research will be headed. "At Microsoft AI, we're working towards Humanist Superintelligence (HSI): incredibly advanced AI capabilities that always work for, in service of, people and humanity more generally," notes the lengthy blog post, adding that "We think of it as systems that are problem-oriented and tend towards the domain specific. Not an unbounded and unlimited entity with high degrees of autonomy - but AI that is carefully calibrated, contextualized, within limits. We want to both explore and prioritize how the most advanced forms of AI can keep humanity in control while at the same time accelerating our path towards tackling our most pressing global challenges."

To achieve these goals, Microsoft has built a team called Microsoft AI (MAI) Superintelligence Team. Using massive amount of resources, combining human intelligence, hardware, software, and various other intelligence forms, Microsoft wants steerable AI systems. However, there is an issue. It appears that no one knows how will a superintelligent system be controlled. As Mustafa Suleyman claims, "No AI developer, no safety researcher, no policy expert, no person I've encountered has a reassuring answer to this question. How do we guarantee it's safe?"