Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: AI companies should serve ‘humanity first’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on the increasingly contentious AI safety debate this week, urging companies to “do what it takes to build stuff that serves humanity first and is in human control” and calling for thorough testing, including by outside testers. Nadella made the comments Tuesday at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, a day after he warned developers against rushing AI products to market. “As the stakes get higher, one should take all the time they need,” he wrote. “If not, you will anyway lose permission to operate.” Several top tech executives have recently commented on AI safety amid growing concerns about the pace of development. After researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic last week and accused leading AI labs of “gambling with our lives,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for an industry-wide slowdown in frontier AI development. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other top tech executives backed the call. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, however, have expressed more market-driven views, arguing that AI labs are already incentivized to police themselves due to liability concerns. “If you build a product or a service and…