Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2 . Book Exhibit Table Now.
Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is the latest tech executive to offer lengthy thoughts on how AI safety might be improved.
In a Saturday morning post on X , Nadella wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.
“We can’t treat Super Intelligence as a set of nested black boxes and simply accept or reject its recommendations, answers, and actions,” Nadella wrote, using the Trump administration’s preferred term for AI .
As outlined by Nadella, this approach “means separating the model from the harness that orchestrates its work,” as well as “externalizing controls and safeguards.” He also called for “every meaningful model action” to be documented with “tamper-proof human readable evidence,” and for systems where “an authorized person” always has the ability “to pause or shut down a model mid-task.”
“We must assume a model is compromised and contain it from the start,” he said. “Think of it like an emergency brake.”
Nadella’s comments come as leading AI companies acknowledge more and more incidents where they seemed to lose control of their models , and after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a plan for more cautious AI development.
Get 50% off a second pass The Disrupt experience is meant to be shared. Get your pass and bring a colleague, partner, or peer at 50% off. Cover more ground by making connections, building momentum, and discovering what’s next in the startup ecosystem.
Newsletters
Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news
Related
AI Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe Anthony Ha
AI Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages Lauren Forristal
AI An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police Amanda Silberling
Latest in AI
In Brief Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’ Anthony Ha
AI Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe Anthony Ha
Startups 3 days to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Meet the startups before they hit mainstream TechCrunch Events