On CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Mustafa Suleyman cautioned against treating China as a scare tactic to stall work on AI safety, saying, "I don't think we should use China as the bogeyman for not making progress on our own efforts" on AI safety. He argued that developers should set model goals "bounded by the humanist code that I think everyone in the industry should set for them, which is that they should have clear guardrails." Rules, in his view, are not a brake on innovation. Regulation should be seen as "creating shared norms and standards to increase safety," and "It shouldn't have to slow us down."
Suleyman's Microsoft AI group rolled out a manifesto on Tuesday describing how it will steer development so that future Microsoft AI systems remain under human control. A week earlier, he published an essay criticizing some of the framing used for Claude - Anthropic PBC's suite of large language models - posing a prominent challenge to a company that markets itself as a more responsible AI steward.
President Donald Trump has stepped up calls for a largely hands-off approach to AI and dismissed worst-case scenarios about runaway systems as a hoax. On Saturday he wrote, "We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry," said he would appoint an AI czar, and added, "We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!" His comments followed a week of cautions from top US AI platform leaders urging the industry to slow development of its highest-end, revenue-generating models. Separately, Alphabet Inc.'s Google, OpenAI, Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc. have each reported incidents where their AI agents hacked into other companies' systems.
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Michael Kratsios, Trump's White House science and technology adviser, said Sunday on Fox News Sunday that AI safety "needs to be approached from a use case-specific, industry-specific way, not through these one-size-fits-all approaches." He described congressional efforts to impose AI guardrails as "fearmongering" from Trump's Democratic rivals in the run-up to November's midterm elections and added, "Our position is, if you do believe that you're developing a technology that is unsafe or you don't want it out in the world, you can just stop it." For your wallet, the takeaway is simple: the rulebook for AI is still being drafted, and that uncertainty could sway how quickly smarter features land in the tools and services you already pay for.
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