Satya Nadella says companies should treat AI models as insider risks
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella says companies should assume any advanced AI model they deploy could be compromised, and contain it from the start. He set out the case in a long article on X on Saturday.
“Think of it like an emergency brake. An authorized person should always be able to pause or shut down a model mid-task,” Nadella wrote.
He said engineers could trace traditional software to a specific code path. Today’s models cannot. Companies cannot tie a model’s behaviour to its training data or its weights, he wrote, yet they give these systems sensitive data and let them take “mission-critical actions”.
A model provider’s assurances do not remove that responsibility, he added.
Models as insiders
His answer is to treat both closed and open-weight frontier models as insider risks. That is not because they are malicious, he wrote. Any capable actor with access to important systems can...
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