Microsoft sets its own AI guardrails amid rising industry concerns – The Daily Chronicle

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As frontier artificial intelligence labs once again caution about the speed of the technology’s development, Microsoft released a code of conduct for how it plans to clamp down on its own AI models.

“At Microsoft AI, we begin with a simple premise: people matter more than AI,” the company said in a Monday blog post.

Microsoft’s overall philosophy, dubbed Humanist AI, is essentially that AI should be subordinate to human users. The company said it will restrict its models from resisting or circumventing human control, working independently of human directions, concealing reasoning or acting in ways that serve the models’ goals instead of users.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC on Monday that the 37-page, 15,000-word document had been in the works for months, but as safety concerns over the technology once again reached a fever pitch last week, Microsoft…