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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman argues against granting AI models rights or moral status, saying it would hinder containment and alignment.
Mustafa Suleyman published a warning about 'model welfare', arguing there is no evidence models have feelings, preferences, or rights, and that inviting them to share ethical or legal status would make AI containment and alignment harder. Simon Willison quotes the post on his blog.
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live speech-to-speech models; Simon Willison built a library-free browser web UI for real-time voice conversations with them.
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new speech-to-speech models comparable in shape to OpenAI's GPT-Live family. Simon Willison had GPT-6 Astra Extra High build him a web UI for testing the models, supporting model and voice preset selection, optional system prompts, and interrupting the model mid-speech. The implementation uses no libraries and talks directly to Google's wss://generativelanguage.googleapis.com BidiGenerateContent WebSocket endpoint.