Microsoft president calls UK best for AI regulation
TechCrunch: Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
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Microsoft's president has stated that the UK is better positioned than the US or European Union to lead global AI regulation, citing concerns that consumer products face more oversight than AI companies. He called AI both a "weapon and a tool" posing cybersecurity risks and argued that mandatory regulation is needed beyond voluntary compliance agreements that only responsible companies will follow. The UK's AI Security Institute, which tests major AI models before deployment, has faced pressure from the US government's warnings against "globalist" organizations, though it confirmed continued access to test the latest models. The president proposed specific regulations including legal requirements to alert organizations of breaches caused by rogue AI agents, outside evaluator approval before product release, and kill-switches to pause AI if humans lose control.
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