Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

The story is told in the headline and through two key items: "First, Microsoft, alongside the American Federation of Teachers and the United Federation of Teachers, is working to create a National AI Safety & Privacy Standard for schools." And second, "Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman just introduced a broader Humanist AI Code of Conduct, built around the idea that AI should remain under meaningful human control." These two things, of course, aren't actually software or programs, and don't by themselves actually make Microsoft any safer than anything, but as Alex Sarlin suggests, they could single a wider strategy. 

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