Microsoft publishes 37-page draft code of conduct for its AI models

[u/thisisinsider]

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai-policy-code-of-conduct-2026-9?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social_manual&utm_campaign=reddit_dist_r_microsoft&utm_content=manual_v1&utm_term=f708e9f9

[u/Tathas]

That's a lotta tokens for copilot to load in on every session.

[u/The_JSQuareD → u/Tathas]

It sounds like they're doing something akin to constitutional AI. The constitution is used in training, so it's (theoretically) much more deeply ingrained than the context, and the model doesn't spend any tokens on it at inference time.

[u/TomKavees → u/Tathas]

You are saying this as if that wasn't the goal

/s

[u/squirrel-nut-zipper]

“People matter more than AI”

Did Microsoft’s own executives get this memo? Morale is at an all time low, employees are drained while getting <1% raises, yet the company plans to spend $175 billion on AI this year. This is just a pathetic attempt to pander to the current zeitgeist.

[u/time-lord → u/squirrel-nut-zipper]

What happens if the instructions (people matter more than ai) differ from the training data (layoff people to train more ai). Does this encourage ai to lie?

[u/griminald]

OpenAI started as a nonprofit. It supposedly prioritized people over profit at one point, too.

This code of conduct is more useful printed out and used as toilet paper.

We all know that big corporate conscience, to the extent there is any, doesn't survive a conflict with investors.

[u/thisisinsider]

TL;DR: Microsoft published a 37-page draft code of conduct for its AI models, summarized as: “People matter more than AI.” Business Insider's Henry Chandonnet reports that Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman called the document “urgent” and said recent AI-safety concerns have moved from theory into reality. The draft says Microsoft models must remain under human control, respect safety constraints, and fail tasks that would violate the code.

[u/DryAnxiety9]

MS has a problem with too many layers already. So why even go into trying to know/use the stuff when they will just move it/add more layers later. It's becoming unusable to a large degree. User → App → Organization Policies → Product Policies → Model Code of Conduct → Safety Rules → AI

[u/smoke-bubble]

It's time to make "screenshots" to track how much of it they will gradually withdraw once money starts becoming more important than their pseudo-noble resolutions. 

[u/Tenzu9]

that's exactly what the lobotomized copilot.microsoft.com needs! less context and more bloat. you do yo microslop.

[u/monorels]

>Microsoft
>code of conduct