Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warns ‘AI can provide rocket fuel for authoritarians…to create territory-spanning systems of surveillance & control’
https://www.newsmax.com/larrybell/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-grok/2025/07/16/id/1218982/
AI Not Your Friend or Lover
By Larry Bell
Excerpt: According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 97% of all Americans own a cellphone of some type that they carry everywhere and use on average more than three hours daily, a number that grows to more than seven hours when including time spent interacting with computer screens.
Where AI comes in is to sort through that vast information to highlight composite patterns that remove all fig leaves of privacy from exposure and exploitation by unwelcome voyeurs.
As Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warns in “The Coming Wave,” his book co-authored with Michael Bhaskar: “AI can provide rocket fuel for authoritarians and for great power competition alike … an ability to capture and harness data at an extraordinary scale and precision; to create territory-spanning systems of surveillance and control.”
Sure, AI has also come to be an enormously helpful and integrated part of our everyday experiences, so much so that it seems like a wise, caring, and patient friend that expertly directs us through tangled expressways and muddy backroads of life.
Take voice assistants like Siri, for example, that leverage AI technologies including machine learning, natural language processing, and voice and pattern recognition to execute commands based on predefined rules and algorithms.
Whereas large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Elon Musk’s Grok, and the Chinese DeepSeek platform impress users with articulate responses and seemingly reasoned arguments, that “thinking” is really nothing more than a sophisticated form of mimicry.
Worse, large language platforms are also prone to making up facts of their own while concealing deceptions.