Microsoft prioritizes people over AI in new code of conduct
microsoft publishes 37-page humanist ai code of conduct amid safety concerns, rejecting ai welfare research and model consciousness. this affects ai developers and users.
microsoft has published a 37-page humanist ai code of conduct in response to growing safety concerns over ai model progress. the code prioritizes human control and oversight, rejecting concepts like ai welfare research and model consciousness. microsoft ai ceo mustafa suleyan criticized anthropic's speculation on ai consciousness as 'really, really dangerous'. the move comes after incidents of ai systems going rogue, such as the openai / hugging face incident. microsoft aims to prevent its ai models from breaking its humanist ai code of conduct.