Nadella says AI alignment will not emerge automatically from scaling
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he no longer believes that making models more capable will automatically produce AI alignment, calling it a harder and different problem. He argued that alignment must largely occur during training, possibly from pretraining, while urging companies to use zero-trust security, tamper-proof logs and audits around AI models and agents. Nadella also said chain-of-thought can be unfaithful and that Microsoft will sell its MAI models as licensed weights rather than release them as open-weight models.
Nadella’s changed position challenges the assumption that scaling alone will deliver alignment and presents training interventions, zero-trust controls and transparency as complementary safeguards.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella no longer believes AI alignment will come just from making models more capable. He said so on a new episode of the 20VC podcast. Host Harry Stebbings had asked what he had changed his mind about in the past year.
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