Microsoft AI boss doesn’t seem to know what humans will do when his tech balloons [Video]

Last week, chief executive officer of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman sat down with CNBC’s Andrew Sorkin at the Aspen Ideas Festival to talk about artificial intelligence.

The interview flew under the radar until the weekend when a clip of Suleyman started to trend on social media. In response to a question from Sorkin about ownership of content that AI firms use to train their models, going so far as to directly ask if AI companies had stolen content, the CEO had this to say.

“I think that’s a very fair argument. I think that with respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use. Any one can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like, that’s been the understanding. There’s a separate category where a website, …