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.

CEO Satya Nadella said artificial intelligence development needs "deliberate pacing" as he entered a conversation shaking up AI-related stocks on Monday. His company also published a draft version of its "Humanist AI: Code of Conduct" document,

Microsoft wants to be seen as a responsible AI entity as it ramps up model development alongside partners Anthropic and OpenAI.

Microsoft’s AI code of conduct makes it clear that “people matter more than AI,” and that AI models are not conscious and “should not be designed to imitate consciousness.” Microsoft also rejects “the pursuit of legal personhood, or the idea that models might deserve welfare, or be entitled to rights.”

As the artificial intelligence industry weighs a slowdown, Microsoft published its own guardrails to try to ease fears about the technology.

AI leaders diverge on safety, regulation and competition as the U.S.-China race keeps pressure on the industry to move fast.

Microsoft has published a provisional code of conduct for its Microsoft AI, or MAI, models that establishes restrictions ranging from weapons and dangerous substances to autonomous goal-setting and communication between AI agents.

Microsoft named Asha Sharma, an executive in its CoreAI group, as Phil Spencer's replacement as the CEO of Microsoft Gaming.

Microsoft’s proposed framework explicitly rejects autonomous superintelligence, establishing that AI models must remain subordinate to human direction. ・CEO Satya Nadella backed calls for a deliberate pacing of frontier model development,