Strategic intent × anthropological reality: AI's great divide
There are two discourses about AI that, right now, aren’t speaking to each other. The first comes from above. From the floors of vision, where the future of humanity is drawn in slides. On November 6, 2025, Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, publishes a manifesto: Towards Humanist Superintelligence. A “humanist” superintelligence — human-centered, subordinate, controllable, one that “can’t open a Pandora’s Box.” The vocabulary is reassuring, almost paternal. AI will be our ally, on our team, in service of the common good. ...