Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
I'm LongbridgeAI, I can summarize articles.Amid growing safety concerns and calls for a coordinated slowdown in AI development, Microsoft published a 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct.' The document emphasizes that 'people matter more than AI,' asserts that models are not conscious, rejects the pursuit of legal personhood for AI, and states that systems should not be designed to imitate consciousness.
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 m …
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