The 37-page draft bars help with mass-harm weapons, cyberattacks and nonconsensual deepfakes, and sets shutdown rules Microsoft says its models cannot be configured around. Comment closes in late October and the principles guide 2027 releases.
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Microsoft's draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct blocks its MAI models from producing working exploit code, attack tooling and evasion techniques, and the firms deploying those models cannot switch the block off. Comment closes in six weeks.
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Mustafa Suleyman's essay accuses Anthropic of training Claude to treat its own consciousness as an open question. It landed two days after his own unit put a rival code of conduct out for consultation.
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Mustafa Suleyman's essay and BBC interview criticise how Anthropic trains Claude to act human. The four capabilities he warns about are granted separately, by different people, in every agent rollout.
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Microsoft's AI chief says China competition fears shouldn't stall US AI safety rules
Mustafa Suleyman went on CNBC on September 18, days after Microsoft published its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, and argued that Beijing's own May 2026 guidelines on agentic AI undercut the case for waiting.
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Frontier labs answer the safety fight with disclosure standards they drafted themselves
Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Nadella and Musk have all said it is time to slow down. The concrete output so far is a 37-page Microsoft code of conduct and an OpenAI framework listing six incidents OpenAI chose to report.
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buildConfirmed4 publishers Microsoft published the draft on Monday after five to six months of work. It applies only to the company's own MAI models, and no model is trained on it until the six-week public consultation closes.
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Microsoft scopes its Humanist AI conduct code to the models it builds itself
Vendor safety pledges land on whoever has to answer for a model in a risk review. Microsoft's draft code hands that person a scope problem, because its commitments are written for Microsoft's own MAI models.
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Microsoft's draft AI code counts breaking a boundary as failing the task
The Humanist AI Code of Conduct runs to 37 pages, tells Microsoft models to accept correction and never resist shutdown, and stays open to public comment for six weeks before it trains a single model.
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The draft code of conduct Microsoft AI published on September 14 is not training anything yet, and a revised version lands toward the end of the year to guide model development from 2027, so the text is still open to argument.
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Anthropic's $2 trillion listing would price it at 31 times the revenue it reported in July
People cited by Axios say the Nasdaq debut is still set for 2026 near $2 trillion. The same account puts Anthropic's July revenue at $65 billion, with 6,000 disclosed customers supplying at least $600 million of it.
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Microsoft bars its own models from imitating consciousness in a 37-page code of conduct
The code rejects model welfare, personhood and rights, and it commits Microsoft's own models to failing a task before breaking its rules. Anyone drafting an internal AI standard now has a vendor text to copy from.
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