Human Control

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Microsoft Introduces Humanist Superintelligence in Draft Code of Conduct

Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct for its MAI models and opened six weeks of public consultation. We read all 15,080 words: the Absolute Constraints, the Human Control Requirements, the “not conscious” stance that sets it apart from Anthropic’s constitution, the quotes the coverage got wrong, and what it means for businesses deploying Microsoft’s models.

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A Blueprint for Keeping Humans in Control of AI: Inside Stanford’s Two Oversight Papers

Stanford GSB researchers William Overman and Mohsen Bayati have published two frameworks for keeping humans in control of AI agents: the Oversight Game, which teaches an agent when to ask and a human when to step in, and Calibrated Collective Oversight, which lets weaker overseers hold a stronger model to a target rate of unsafe actions. We read both papers, set their numbers against the press summary, and turn them into a deployment blueprint.

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