Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella endorsed “deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal” in pursuing superintelligence and welcomed proposals for embedded safety evaluators. He said AI that does not help humanity and remain under human control is not worth pursuing. Microsoft will publish the code of conduct underlying its MAI models for public consultation on Sept. 14.
Nadella also called for accelerating the spread of AI’s benefits, supporting both closed and open-source models, and ensuring businesses can incorporate their knowledge into models they control without depending on a single provider. He said the approach must involve broad representation across countries, companies and academia rather than control by a handful of entities. Mustafa Suleyman endorsed his position that technology should serve humanity.
His statement followed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Sept. 12 call to slow advances in AI capabilities while continuing model training and technical progress. Anthropic committed to giving outside evaluators permanent access equivalent to employees’ access to verify safety practices, report incidents and assess alignment during training. OpenAI CEO Sam
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- SOURCE@satyanadella“This is the approach we are taking: broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack; enterprise control of learning loops and models; and the “Code of Conduct” that underlies our own first party MAI models that we’ll publish tomorrow for public consultation.”x.com
- SOURCE@mustafasuleyman“This is such a straightforward and commonsense view: the purpose of technology is to serve humanity and accelerate human flourishing.”x.com
- SUPPORT@rohanpaul_ai“Every organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop/hill climbing machine, without becoming dependent on any one model provider, and have the ability to embed its own knowledge into models and weights they control.”x.com
- SUPPORT@peterwildeford“Satya (Microsoft CEO) joins team pacing”x.com
- SOURCE@ben_burtenshaw“Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.”x.com
- SOURCE@clashreport“Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: We need to make this technology carefully, and we need to make sure that our safeguards, our ability to understand it, our ability to control it, keeps up with the pace at which the technology is happening.”x.com
- SUPPORT@wallstengine“ANTHROPIC CEO DARIO AMODEI: WE NEED TO HAVE THE GOVERNMENT IN THE ROOM THE NEXT STEP IS FOR MULTIPLE INDUSTRY PLAYERS TO ALSO AGREE TO HAVE THIRD-PARTY EVALUATORS.”x.com
- SUPPORT@mossadil“Anthropic says it disrupted malicious use of Claude by suspected state-backed actors, criminals, spyware vendors and propagandists across cyberattacks, surveillance, influence operations, weapons development, biological misuse and fraud.”x.com