Microsoft President Says Milk Faces More Regulation than AI
Smith said voluntary pledges are not enough and proposed independent audits, incident reports and emergency kill switches for AI systems.
- On Monday, Microsoft President Brad Smith urged urgent global safety rules for Artificial Intelligence, warning that AI currently faces fewer regulatory requirements than milk cartons.
- Smith argued washing machines face stricter safety inspections than AI, proposing mandatory "incident reports," an "emergency brake" for rogue agents, and notification protocols for any "victim" of a system breach.
- Microsoft's president identified Britain as best positioned to lead AI regulation, crediting the Security Institute launched under former prime minister Rishi Sunak for assessing capabilities and risks.
- Alongside his regulatory push, Smith announced Microsoft plans to spend $4 billion on an additional Artificial Intelligence data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, expanding Graphical Processing Unit capacity.
- Minister Kanishka Narayan stated Britain would consider regulating advanced models if current systems prove insufficient, though some experts debate whether executives urging slower development have ulterior motives like preserving market leads.
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Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, believes that AI "is moving forward faster" than security teams. "That's not good for public protection. It's not even good for industry."
Microsoft President Brad Smith insists on an obligation to produce independent expert opinions on AI product developers. This is not his only proposal.
'Milk faces more regulation than AI,' emergency brakes must be implemented, says Microsoft pres.
Brad Smith said there should be a legal requirement for companies to write incident reports. "We know how to do this for other products," he said. "We should... think about how to apply it to AI."
Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, argues that Artificial Intelligence (AI) urgently needs global regulation, with independent evaluators able to check the new developments of border models. Smith also said in an interview published months by BBC, that the set of safety rules that should be introduced globally should...
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