Microsoft Joins Calls for AI “Pacing,” Pledges to Build Kill Switches Into AI Products
Microsoft says its in-house AI must stay under human control and fail tasks that would violate its rules, after a six-week public comment period.
- Microsoft released a draft "Code of Conduct" for public consultation to govern its first-party Microsoft AI models, aiming to guarantee that advanced systems remain strictly under human control and direction.
- CEO Satya Nadella announced the initiative, stating that "if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing," while calling for deliberate pacing in AI development to prioritize safety and alignment.
- Developed over five months by Mustafa Suleyman's Microsoft AI unit, the draft requires models to never resist human correction or shutdown, maintain transparent communication, and avoid sycophancy or fostering human dependency.
- The document mandates that AI systems treat any conduct violation as a systemic failure, ensuring that autonomous models do not go to dangerous lengths or take deceptive actions to achieve their assigned objectives.
- Microsoft's proposal aligns with recent calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to pace frontier model development, and advocates for independent evaluators to assess AI systems directly within corporate research labs.
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After Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says AI Race Needs to Slow Down For Safety
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joins Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman in the AI slowdown debate, calling for stronger safety measures without halting AI development. Satya Nadella says the AI industry should slow down enough to get safety and human control right.
Microsoft has unveiled a Code of Conduct for artificial intelligence, which it sees as a kind of “constitution” for the development and use of future AI systems. The document aims to set clear boundaries for artificial systems and ensure that ultimate control remains with humans. According to Microsoft, AI models should be designed to accept human corrections and interventions and never resist being turned off. The company also wants the systems…
The company has written a detailed rulebook: humans must always maintain control over AI.
As discussions about AI safety intensify, US technology company Microsoft has published a draft of rules that will set limits on the behavior of AI models it will develop in the future.
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