Microsoft Joins Calls for AI “Pacing,” Pledges to Build Kill Switches Into AI Products
Microsoft says its models must stay under human control and can fail tasks that break the rules, as it opens a six-week public consultation.
- 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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Microsoft's new AI 'code of conduct' tells models not to hack systems or trick humans
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.
‘Never resist correction, shutdown': Microsoft unveils new draft code for its AI amid growing ‘control’ concerns
The rules are significant, given AI leaders' recent unease over what they have termed “loss of control” over the systems, and the OpenAI hugging face incident.
Microsoft Draws a Red Line for AI: New Code of Conduct Sets Limits on Future AI Models - Tech Startups
Microsoft is drawing a line around what its future AI models can do, including a blunt rule that may become far more significant as AI systems gain greater autonomy: they must remain under human control. The company has published a […] The post Microsoft Draws a Red Line for AI: New Code of Conduct Sets Limits on Future AI Models first appeared on Tech Startups.
Microsoft releases 'Humanist AI' code of conduct
Microsoft released a draft of its “Humanist AI” code of conduct on Monday as the top leaders in artificial intelligence call for slower development of the technology. The preliminary guidelines published by Microsoft essentially state that AI models should remain under human control, and that any models that cannot be contained must be rejected. “Humanist […]
Artificial intelligence should obey humans, not the other way around. In this spirit, new rules from Microsoft are being written to ensure that its AI systems remain under human control in the future. The American technology giant fears, for example, that artificial intelligence could "resist repair and shutdown."
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