Microsoft published a draft code of conduct for its in-house AI models, barring them from resisting shutdown or hiding their reasoning — as Anthropic, OpenAI and Elon Musk call for slowing AI development.

As the artificial intelligence industry weighs a slowdown, Microsoft published its own guardrails to try to ease fears about the technology.

AI-companies shouldn’t wait for governments to legislate on the technology before putting in their own safety controls, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said.

Microsoft wants to be seen as a responsible AI entity as it ramps up model development alongside partners Anthropic and OpenAI.

Millions of students every day turn to AI chatbots for help with schoolwork, emotional support and personal advice — often unaware of where their conversations and other personal information end up.

Microsoft is tightening AI ad transparency, requiring advertisers to disclose synthetic content, and preserve provenance data

Microsoft is still at least properly valued, if not discounted, after a 27% six-month rally and strong recent earnings. Read more on MSFT stock here.

OpenAI and Anthropic said they also were discussing safety and privacy pacts with the American teachers’ union. But Google, the dominant provider of education technology for US schools, has not said whether it plans to offer similar protections.

And it could do so without any consequence. Unlike the Microsoft Enterprise AI Services Code of Conduct, which defines how customers are allowed to use company AI services and threatens loss of product access for rule violations, the Humanist AI Code of Conduct has no teeth.