At the Aspen Ideas Festival in June 2024, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman claimed content on the open web is 'fair use' and 'freeware' that 'anyone can copy, recreate with, reproduce with.' This contradicts established copyright law - creative works are protected from the moment of creation regardless of being shared online. Shortly after, the Center for Investigative Reporting and multiple newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft for using content without permission.
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Mustafa Suleyman
CEO, Microsoft AI Microsoft
CEO of Microsoft AI. Co-founder of DeepMind (acquired by Google) and Inflection AI. Joined Microsoft in March 2024. Author of 'The Coming Wave' on AI risks.
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In August 2019, Mustafa Suleyman was placed on administrative leave from DeepMind following allegations of bullying employees. Google brought in a law firm to investigate staff complaints about his management style. He had 'most of his management duties stripped away' and undertook professional development training. Suleyman later acknowledged: 'I really screwed up. I was very demanding and pretty relentless.' He left DeepMind for a policy role and departed Google entirely in January 2022.