Microsoft publishes draft conduct code for future AI models

Where Left and Right agree, and where they split

Where Left and Right agree

Both treat an AI system resisting correction or shutdown as a genuine failure worth codifying, and take seriously that Microsoft spent five to six months drafting these rules before any public input.

Where Left and Right split

A company grading its own homework — needing independent audit before the rules can be trusted —, or voluntary self-regulation working precisely because one firm alone bears the cost of its own standard.

Why they won’t converge

This is a trust-in-institution divide: whether a company's self-authored, self-revised rulebook can ever substitute for independent enforcement, no matter how detailed the draft or how open the consultation.