Nadella puts Microsoft’s MAI model “Code of Conduct” out for public consultation
Partly confirmed
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 2 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra136 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.575 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen166 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7105 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 75 days before it.
Key facts
- Announced 2026-09-13; publication of the Code of Conduct stated for 2026-09-14
- Nadella: ‘Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it’s not worth pursuing.’
- Applies to Microsoft’s first-party MAI models (MAI-Thinking-1 etc.)
- Context: Microsoft AI’s stated goal is ‘Humanist Superintelligence’ (Suleyman)
What happened
Microsoft said it would publish the behavioral “Code of Conduct” underlying its MAI models and invite public comment. Nadella tied the effort to alignment research, “deliberate pacing” and ideas such as embedded evaluators.
Why it matters
A frontier developer opening its model-behavior rules to public consultation is a governance experiment comparable to published model specs/constitutions at other labs.
Confidence medium: based on a single secondary report; the primary Microsoft document was not read.
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