Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted an internal memo on the company's message board, sharing his views on whether the AI industry is developing too quickly.

He stated that AI should remain under human control, support broader third-party testing, and warned that the company must take time to ensure the safety of the technology. "As risks increase, you should spend as much time as needed." "Otherwise, you will lose your operating license no matter what."

Intense Industry Statements, Microsoft Releases 37-Page Code of Conduct

Previously, some AI researchers warned last week that AI technology could kill everyone. On the weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, proposed slowing down AI development and said the company would allow external monitoring of its model progress; Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, agreed to third-party monitoring and supported slowing deployment when necessary to ensure alignment and safety.

On Monday, Microsoft also released a 37-page draft of its "humanistic" AI model code of conduct. Mustafa Suleiman, Microsoft AI leader, wrote: "The theoretical concerns we have long had are now very real."

Three Key Points: Design Objectives, Customer Control, and Community Benefit

In the memo, Nadella outlined three key areas. First, clear design objectives: AI must be under human control and widely benefit society. This means building a cutting-edge ecosystem where both open-source and closed-source models can thrive, and being cautious about the pace of adjustment. He compared this rhythm to research and testing before release, stating that having more external or third-party testing and testers is good—when risks increase, you should spend as much time as needed, otherwise you will eventually lose your operating license.

Second, for customers, the key is to ensure they maintain control over their unique and implicit knowledge, thus building their own continuous learning cycle without relying on any single model provider. Foundry enables long-running agents to be enterprise-ready, with built-in security, safety safeguards, and FinOps, among others.

Third, Microsoft must ensure that local residents can truly benefit from infrastructure construction in order to obtain permission to build related infrastructure. Nadella mentioned the Quincy data center as an example of the company's long-term co-growth with the community.

Nadella concluded that this is a set of practices spanning three levels: how to build at the forefront, how to keep customers in control, and how to ensure economic benefits are widely distributed to communities and nations. He said that as a company, Microsoft can point to actual actions behind its words.