The hard fact is that we do not understand consciousness. Not in humans, not in animals, and not in machines.

The hard fact is that we do not understand consciousness. Not in humans, not in animals, and not in machines.

Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”

Executives at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech warned that you need to start with fundamentals before rolling out a complex new AI agent.