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Mustafa Suleyman – AI is hacking our empathy circuits

Consciousness, collective AI psychosis & the case for going faster

Azeem Azhar and Chantal Smith
Feb 06, 2026
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This post originally appeared in Exponential View.

A few days before OpenClaw exploded, I recorded a prescient conversation with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind. We talked about what happens when AI starts to seem conscious – even if it isn’t. Today, you get to hear our conversation.

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