By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-10-11 04:43:00
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants businesses to stop taking AI models at their word. In a new essay on X titled “Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era”, Nadella says frontier AI models, closed and open-weight alike, should be treated as insider risks. Not because they are out to cause harm, but because any capable actor with access to important systems can make mistakes or be compromised.The worry starts with a basic gap. Engineers could trace traditional software’s behaviour to a specific code path. With today’s models, nobody can tie an output to particular training data or model weights. Yet companies are handing these agents their most sensitive data and the power to take mission-critical actions. “We simply can’t outsource responsibility for what intelligence does on our behalf,” Nadella writes, adding that a model provider’s assurances don’t change that.
