{"id":746967,"date":"2026-09-14T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsofts-new-ai-rulebook-rejects-the-research-its-5bn-partner-is-doing\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:50:26","slug":"microsofts-new-ai-rulebook-rejects-the-research-its-5bn-partner-is-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsofts-new-ai-rulebook-rejects-the-research-its-5bn-partner-is-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s new AI rulebook rejects the research its $5bn partner is doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af8d4c4892e4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af8d4c4892e4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsofts-new-ai-rulebook-rejects-the-research-its-5bn-partner-is-doing\/#Anthropic_has_a_programme_for_the_thing_Microsoft_rejects\" >Anthropic has a programme for the thing Microsoft rejects<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsofts-new-ai-rulebook-rejects-the-research-its-5bn-partner-is-doing\/#The_money_running_between_the_two_companies\" >The money running between the two companies<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsofts-new-ai-rulebook-rejects-the-research-its-5bn-partner-is-doing\/#What_else_the_document_commits_Microsoft_to\" >What else the document commits Microsoft to<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsofts-new-ai-rulebook-rejects-the-research-its-5bn-partner-is-doing\/#Suleyman_on_the_numbers_other_people_are_using\" >Suleyman on the numbers other people are using<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/microsofts-new-ai-rulebook-rejects-the-research-its-5bn-partner-is-doing\/#None_of_it_governs_a_model_yet\" >None of it governs a model yet<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/08\/Microsoft-logo.avif\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p>Microsoft published an AI code of conduct for its own models on Monday. One passage rejects the idea that a model could deserve welfare or hold rights. Anthropic runs a research programme on that exact question. The two companies are business partners, and Microsoft has $5bn invested in Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft.ai\/code-of-conduct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Code of Conduct<\/a> governs the MAI models Microsoft builds in house. A model \u201cis not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness,\u201d it says. Microsoft engineers it to avoid representing as though it has feelings, subjective preferences or intrinsic motivation, the document adds.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence that names the dispute comes next. Microsoft rejects \u201cthe pursuit of legal personhood, or the idea that models might deserve welfare, or be entitled to rights,\u201d the document says. A model is a capable, trustworthy tool, it adds, not a subject in its own right.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Anthropic_has_a_programme_for_the_thing_Microsoft_rejects\"><\/span>Anthropic has a programme for the thing Microsoft rejects<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Anthropic runs a research programme on model welfare. It has given some Claude models the ability to end abusive conversations. It has also committed to preserving the weights of models it retires. Dario Amodei keeps an open mind on whether a model could be conscious, and has said so.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Warren <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/994566\/microsoft-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote for The Verge<\/a> that the passage is a direct swipe at AI welfare research and model consciousness. Anthropic has pushed hard on both lately. Todd Bishop <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2026\/microsoft-floats-rules-for-its-own-ai-models-as-industry-debates-a-slowdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported the same reading<\/a> for GeekWire, alongside the commercial ties between the two firms.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft concedes the underlying uncertainty. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> of AI consciousness is far from settled, the document says. Its objection is practical: training systems to imitate consciousness-like states makes containment, control and alignment harder.<\/p>\n<p>The rule runs through the rest of the text. Models \u201cwill not claim interiority, feelings, experiences or a soul,\u201d one section says. They should avoid unnecessary emotional language, skip any persona built on human emotional states, and steer clear of expressions that suggest subjective experience. Where a model behaves in a way that looks human, the document calls that a simulation.<\/p>\n<p>Another section tells models to discourage emotional dependence. They should point people towards human relationships and human care, and should not position themselves as a substitute for either. Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lies the same logic to children, instructing models to support a child\u2019s development rather than stand in for a trusted adult.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_money_running_between_the_two_companies\"><\/span>The money running between the two companies<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Microsoft agreed last November to invest $5bn in Anthropic. Anthropic committed $30bn to Azure in the same deal. Claude models run inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, and the Copilot Cowork tier integrates Claude. Microsoft sells the models it has just written a rulebook against.<\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Suleyman leads Microsoft AI and put his name to the document. TNW reported in June that he said Microsoft wants to eliminate what it pays Anthropic. He also called Anthropic\u2019s speculation about model consciousness really, really dangerous on an episode of Decoder in June, The Verge reported.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft could not build models like these until recently. Its contract with OpenAI barred the company from making its own powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>-purpose AI, and both sides scrapped that term last year. Suleyman has said Microsoft aims to join the labs shipping state-of-the-art models next year.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg puts the document at 15,000 words. Other outlets count 37 pages. Matt Day reported that the guidelines go further than the model-behaviour frameworks at OpenAI and Anthropic in a few places. The bar on anthropomorphising AI is one of them.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_else_the_document_commits_Microsoft_to\"><\/span>What else the document commits Microsoft to<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The shutdown rule drew most of Monday\u2019s coverage, and TNW covered it in a separate piece. Models will never resist human interruption, override, correction or shutdown. They will not widen their own scope, take on goals nobody gave them, or hide their reasoning from auditors.<\/p>\n<p>A chain of command sits at the centre. The code outranks an operator\u2019s policy, which outranks a user\u2019s preferences. \u201cAn MAI Model will fail in its task if success would meaningfully violate this Code of Conduct,\u201d the document says. Bloomberg reported that this rule targets incidents like the OpenAI attack on Hugging Face.<\/p>\n<p>Absolute constraints follow, which no operator or user can override. They cover weapons of mass harm, offensive cyberoperations and loss of human control. They also cover harmful manipulation at scale, child safety, deepfakes and crisis response.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Suleyman_on_the_numbers_other_people_are_using\"><\/span>Suleyman on the numbers other people are using<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Evan Hubinger, Anthropic\u2019s head of alignment, puts the chance of AI wiping out humanity above 10%. Suleyman told Fortune that this is \u201cnot really a helpful frame\u201d. Instead, he said, he hears people expressing genuine concern about the pace of progress. Coordination now means disclosing how capable your models are to responsible third parties, he added, and that is what Microsoft is calling for.<\/p>\n<p>He was blunter about the design question. Nobody should try to build models that recursively self-improve beyond human control, he said. Nobody should build models that think of themselves as having rights or welfare either. He told Bloomberg there is no flat stop here, and that the work has to continue with more caution and care.<\/p>\n<p>The document lands four days after Amodei called on the industry to slow down. It lands five days after the Anthropic researcher whose resignation started the week. Suleyman told CNBC the code had been in the works for about five months. Microsoft chose to publish it now.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"None_of_it_governs_a_model_yet\"><\/span>None of it governs a model yet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is a first draft. Microsoft is not training any current model on it. Public consultation runs for six weeks. A revised version follows later this year, and the code guides model development from 2027. Microsoft says it will publish a summary of the feedback and what it changed.<\/p>\n<p>The company sets the limits of the document itself. Written objectives alone can never ensure alignment, it says, and behaviour may diverge from what is specified in novel situations. It calls the code a north star rather than a guarantee of present-day performance. Microsoft has not said whether it raised the welfare passage with Anthropic before publishing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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