Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns

Microsoft is publishing a 37-page “humanist AI code of conduct” today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI development over the weekend, after researchers warned recently that AI model progress could outpace our ability to safely deploy increasingly complex systems and verify and control the actions of AI agents.

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.”

That’s a direct swipe at AI welfare research and model consciousness — concepts Anthropic has been pushing hard on lately. Amodei said earlier this year that Anthropic is “open to the idea” that models could be conscious,...

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