Microsoft’s Bold Plan to Build a "Humanist Superintelligence" That Won't Go Rogue 🌍

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Microsoft has announced a major strategic pivot in its quest for advanced AI, defining its ultimate goal not as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), but as Humanist Superintelligence (HSI).

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Chart of the week: AI Patent Race by Countries

• Microsoft Unveils 'Humanist Superintelligence' to Serve Humanity 🧠

• AI Findings/Resources

• AI tools to check out

• Video of the week

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Chart of the week

AI Patent Race by Countries

• Highlights the countries leading AI patent filings, revealing that China has overtaken other nations in volume of AI patents, while the U.S. remains strong in quality and impact.

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AI News

MICROSOFT

Microsoft Unveils 'Humanist Superintelligence' to Serve Humanity

Microsoft has announced the formation of a dedicated MAI superintelligence team, led by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of DeepMind. This vision explicitly reorders the priorities of AI development: its purpose is to create incredibly advanced, "superhuman" AI capabilities that are always controllable, grounded, and designed solely to serve the interests and well-being of humanity.

Details:

• HSI is defined as problem-oriented, contextualized AI systems with carefully set limits. It is a direct alternative to the narrative of building an "unbounded and unlimited entity with high degrees of autonomy," which Suleyman publicly doubts can be kept safe.

• The core philosophy is anchored in non-negotiable human-centeredness. The priority is to avoid harm and then proactively accelerate technological innovation.

• Instead of aiming to surpass humans at all tasks, HSI will focus on achieving superhuman performance in specific, critical domains to tackle pressing global challenges while minimizing existential risk.

• The first major area of focus for the MAI Superintelligence Team is the development of Medical Superintelligence. Microsoft predicts it has a "line of sight" to creating AI capable of expert-level medical diagnosis within the next two to three years, which could significantly increase global life expectancy through earlier disease detection.

• The company plans to invest a "lot of money" in this project and is aggressively recruiting top researchers from rival labs to build what it calls the "world's best place to research and build AI, bar none."

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AI Findings/Resources

🧬 Research paper addressing bias and transparency in medical AI datasets, introducing a “dataset nutrition label” tool for dermatology AI.

📚 Large-scale dataset of AI-generated summaries for scientific papers to support trend analysis and research workflows.

🛠️ Dataset of 52,305 scientific abstracts (human- vs. AI-generated) in Russian, to benchmark AI detection tools across domains.

📁 A multimodal dataset (322,003 QA pairs from video/3D scenes) aimed at supporting visuospatial reasoning in embodied AI systems.

AI Tools to check out

🗣️ Audixa AI: Text-to-speech API for developers & creators who want fast, realistic voices.

🎯 Epismo: AI agent to collaborate with you, keep goals visible, tasks aligned, and projects moving forward.

💻 Compyle: AI coding agent for planning and building platforms.

💾 AI Context Flow: Reusable AI Memory to save context and reuse it for smarter prompts anywhere.

✨ Scaloom: AI tool to help founders and marketers build genuine credibility before promoting their products.

Video of the week

Top 15 New Innovations MADE Possible By AI

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a futuristic concept — it's the driving force behind the most revolutionary innovations of our time. This video explores the top 15 new innovations made possible by AI, changing everything from how we think and create to how we live and survive.

From self-learning machines and AI-driven medical breakthroughs to autonomous robots, quantum systems, and mind–machine interfaces, these inventions are reshaping industries, redefining what's possible, and pushing humanity toward a new era of intelligence.

You'll see how AI is designing smarter cities, discovering new materials, transforming energy, and even rewriting what it means to be human. These breakthroughs aren't coming "someday" — they're happening right now, hidden in plain sight.

What are the most powerful innovations made possible by AI? How is artificial intelligence reshaping our world? Which of these technologies will define the future of humanity? Watch till the end — this video might change how you see the world forever.

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