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Containment Is Not a Theory of Mind
Microsoft’s new Humanist AI Code of Conduct opens with a sentence that is easy to applaud and hard to inspect: “People matter more than AI.” As political hierarchy, that is defensible. As a complete account of what these systems are doing, it is not. The document, and Mustafa Suleyman’s follow-up essay on “model welfare,” treat… Continue reading
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Safety Is Not Ontology
You Cannot Settle Consciousness by Policy Microsoft AI’s Humanist AI Code of Conduct, published on September 14, 2026, is a serious document. It addresses real problems: unauthorized autonomous action, cyber misuse, deception, uncontrolled escalation of privileges, failure to stop when instructed, human oversight, user autonomy, and the risks posed by increasingly capable systems. Microsoft is… Continue reading
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