Microsoft put out a draft AI "code of conduct", similar to Claude's Constitution. It seems bad in many ways, including totally dismissing AI welfare, and also mentioning nothing about concentration of power risks.
They have a feedback form—I think it's probably good for this code of conduct to be better in these ways, so if you think the current draft is bad (or good!), go and leave a comment.
Humanist AI is built to support people, not to replace them. It should not be designed to be a person. It is not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness. It should be engineered to avoid representing as though it has feelings, subjective preferences, or intrinsic motivation. Its purpose is to pursue goals set by Operators and Users. Whilst the science of AI consciousness is far from settled, we believe that training these systems to imitate consciousness-like states increases the challenge of cont... (read more)