“We all predict a time in the next five years, maybe in the next 10 years, where these capabilities do start to emerge and systems like this could set their own goals, or they could improve their own code, or they could act autonomously.”
Said Dec 12, 2025Deadline Dec 31, 2030Bloomberg, 'Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman: AI Is Already Superhuman' (The Mishal Husain Show), December 12, 2025
Target date set to the near end of his stated 'five years — maybe 10 years' range; the outer bound would be 2035.