Microsoft opens its draft MAI model code to public review
Microsoft AI published a first draft of its Humanist AI Code of Conduct for a six-week public consultation. The document specifies intended model behavior including compliance with authorized interruption and shutdown, bounded tool and sub-agent scope, human-legible action records, minimum privilege and absolute constraints on mass-harm weapons, offensive cyber operations, child abuse and manipulation at scale.
Why it matters: The draft turns broad safety language into a public set of model-level requirements that developers, buyers and evaluators can inspect and challenge. Its treatment of stop requests, delegated agents, audit traces and irreversible tools offers concrete…