Microsoft published a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct" stating that "people matter more than AI" and that its models should remain subordinate to human oversight. The document rejects legal personhood and AI welfare for models, a stance at odds with Anthropic's openness to model consciousness, which Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman previously called "really, really dangerous." The announcement follows Dario Amodei's weekend call for a coordinated slowdown of AI development.
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