Microsoft Joins Calls for AI “Pacing,” Pledges to Build Kill Switches Into AI Products
- 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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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.
Microsoft unveils code of conduct for AI models as safety concerns mount
Microsoft on Monday revealed a draft of a new “Humanist AI Code of Conduct” that outlines the principles that will govern its development of AI models in an effort to get feedback ahead of publishing a revised version later this year. The company said the “Humanist AI Code of Conduct” will take into account feedback […]
Company models will not use adaptive, deceptive and self-reinforcing mechanisms to circumvent human control.
Microsoft has prepared a draft new code of conduct aimed at establishing rules and controls governing the functioning of its artificial intelligence models, emphasizing the primacy of human control and preventing systems from making independent decisions that go beyond their specific tasks.
Microsoft says AI must always obey humans, and never resist being shut down
AI must remain under human control, emphasises Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. The company unveils a draft Code of Conduct for its MAI models. The proposed rules call for AI systems that can be corrected, interrupted and shut down.
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