{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-13-microsoft-mai-code-of-conduct/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-13-microsoft-mai-code-of-conduct/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-09-13-microsoft-mai-code-of-conduct","date":"2026-09-13","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Nadella puts Microsoft's MAI model \"Code of Conduct\" out for public consultation","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":2,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"partly","labels":["Partly confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Unite.AI - Nadella announces public consultation on Microsoft's MAI model rules","url":"https://www.unite.ai/nadella-announces-public-consultation-on-microsofts-mai-model-rules/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"unite.ai"}],"official":0,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Microsoft"],"title":"Nadella puts Microsoft's MAI model \"Code of Conduct\" out for public consultation","summary":"On 2026-09-13 Satya Nadella announced Microsoft would publish the \"Code of Conduct\" governing its first-party MAI models for public consultation, framing any pursuit of superintelligence as conditional on AI staying under human control - consistent with Mustafa Suleyman's \"humanist superintelligence\" agenda.","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)"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["microsoft","mai","alignment","superintelligence","governance"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nMicrosoft said it would publish the behavioral \"Code of Conduct\" underlying its MAI models and invite public comment.\nNadella tied the effort to alignment research, \"deliberate pacing\" and ideas such as embedded evaluators.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nA frontier developer opening its model-behavior rules to public consultation is a governance experiment comparable to\npublished model specs/constitutions at other labs.\n\nConfidence medium: based on a single secondary report; the primary Microsoft document was not read.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-06-02-microsoft-mai-models-build-2026","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-microsoft-mai-models-build-2026/","date":"2026-06-02","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Microsoft launches seven in-house MAI models at Build 2026, led by MAI-Thinking-1","deck":null,"takeaway":"Coming weeks after the renegotiated OpenAI deal, the launch shows Microsoft hedging its OpenAI dependence with a first-party model family deployed across its biggest products.","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":4,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Microsoft"]}],"people":[{"id":"satya-nadella","name":"Satya Nadella","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/satya-nadella/"},{"id":"mustafa-suleyman","name":"Mustafa Suleyman","url":"https://postcutoff.com/person/mustafa-suleyman/"}],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":136,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":75,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":166,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":105,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}