Microsoft opens consultation on code of conduct for its MAI models

The document states that MAI models will never resist human interruption, override, correction or shutdown, and that they should not widen their own scope or hide their reasoning from auditors. It sets out absolute constraints covering weapons capable of mass harm, child safety and harmful manipulation, and says the company rejects legal personhood for models or the idea that they deserve welfare or rights. Microsoft said it will review feedback, publish a summary of changes and issue a revised version later this year.

CNBC reported that Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, said the guidelines had been in preparation for about five months and that the company ran focus groups and consulted specialists in law, ethics, linguistics and philosophy; the final version is to guide model development from 2027. The Guardian reported Suleyman said AI must be subordinate and in service of people, and that fears about loss of control are real. The draft arrives during an industry argument over slowing frontier development.