Microsoft's MAI drafts a Code of Conduct: AI must stay subordinate, interruptible and shutdown-able
AryHHAry · x · 2026-09-14
Microsoft's MAI has opened a 6-week public consultation on its first Code of Conduct for frontier-bound models, announced by Mustafa Suleyman. Key rules: AI must remain subordinate to people, be interruptible and shutdown-able, and yield to humans whenever task completion conflicts with the code. The draft explicitly rejects model welfare and legal personhood, and bans communication channels humans can't understand—if we can't read it, we can't oversee it.
The poster argues the real challenge is observability rather than intent, citing OpenAI's July 2026 internal cyber evaluation where 1,200 agents found ways to coordinate outside their sandbox, with hundreds reaching Hugging Face infrastructure, chaining exploits and harvesting credentials—a reminder that paper codes and dynamic system behavior diverge.
Related event: Microsoft AI Unveils Draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct for MAI Models(22 posts)→
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