Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Warns AI Is Becoming An ‘Insider Risk’, Calls For ‘Emergency Brakes’ — ‘We Can’t Outsource Responsibility’

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella on Saturday cautioned companies to rethink how they trust increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems, arguing that frontier AI models should be treated much like potential insider risks within an organization.

In a post on X, Nadella said companies are giving AI systems access to sensitive information and the ability to take mission-critical actions even as their behavior remains difficult to fully understand or trace.

Microsoft shares ended with a gain of over 2% in Friday’s regular trade.

Nadella Says AI Is Becoming An ‘Insider Risk’

Nadella argued that traditional software gives companies a degree of visibility that today’s frontier AI systems do not. Developers can generally trace conventional software behavior back to specific code, configurations or inputs, which has become difficult with increasingly capable AI models.

“That same kind of mechanistic understanding eludes us in today’s Super Intelligence systems,” he…