{"id":599693,"date":"2026-09-14T03:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599693\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T03:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:42:12","slug":"microsoft-ceo-says-superintelligence-must-help-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599693\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft CEO says superintelligence must &#8216;help humanity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CFRA Research Senior Vice President Angelo Zino joins &#8216;Making Money&#8217; to discuss Microsoft stock as CFRA raises its price target to 550.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Sunday that the pursuit of superintelligence \u2014 AI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">technology that<\/a> could surpass humans across virtually every cognitive task \u2014 should focus on &#8220;helping humanity&#8221; and remain under &#8220;human control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Nadella called for broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AI adoption<\/a> through what he described as a &#8220;frontier ecosystem&#8221; where both closed- and open-source AI models can &#8220;thrive&#8221; across countries, communities and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it&#8217;s not worth pursuing,&#8221; Nadella wrote. &#8220;We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across countries, communities, and companies. This requires a frontier ecosystem in which both closed and open-source models can thrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/bill-gates-outlines-stakes-ai-era-greatest-equalizer-worst-source-injustice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BILL GATES OUTLINES THE STAKES OF THE AI ERA: &#8216;GREATEST EQUALIZER&#8230; OR WORST SOURCE OF INJUSTICE&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-1.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Sunday that the pursuit of superintelligence must remain focused on &#8220;helping humanity&#8221; while staying under &#8220;human control.&#8221; (Fabrice COFFRINI \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>He added that organizations should be able to build AI systems using their own data rather than becoming dependent on a single model provider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/fox-news-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">For firms<\/a>, it\u2019s imperative that they retain full control over their unique and tacit knowledge,&#8221; Nadella wrote. &#8220;Every organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop\/hill climbing machine, without becoming dependent on any one model provider, and have the ability to embed its own knowledge into models and weights they control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nadella called for a deliberate approach to AI development, saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Microsoft supports<\/a> concepts such as &#8220;embedded evaluators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, in this context, we welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We also welcome ideas like \u2018embedded evaluators\u2019 and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/nvidia-microsoft-urge-us-avoid-broad-restrictions-open-ai-models\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NVIDIA, MICROSOFT URGE US TO AVOID BROAD RESTRICTIONS ON OPEN AI MODELS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/microsoft-exterior.jpg\" alt=\"People walk by the Microsoft Office\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Nadella also said advanced AI development should not be controlled by a handful of companies. (Craig T Fruchtman\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Nadella also said advanced AI development should not be controlled by a handful of companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The key is that this cannot be controlled by a handful of entities, but must have broad representation across the ecosystem, countries, and fields, including academia,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the approach we are taking: broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack; enterprise control of learning loops and models; and the \u2018Code of Conduct\u2019 that underlies our own first party MAI models that we\u2019ll publish tomorrow for public consultation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His comments come as debate intensifies over the rapid pace of AI development and the risks posed by increasingly capable systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/microsoft-ceo-has-warning-about-ai-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MICROSOFT CEO HAS A WARNING ABOUT THE AI RACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/dario-amodei-anthropic-june-2026.jpg\" alt=\"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that there are &#8220;real dangers&#8221; associated with AI development. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t lie to you \u2013 there are real dangers,&#8221; Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-on-ai-risks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS News<\/a>. &#8220;And I think for too long the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a> that Anthropic and OpenAI are &#8220;gambling with our lives&#8221; by pursuing self-improving superintelligence, adding that AI has a greater than 10% chance of &#8220;kill[ing] all humans&#8221; within &#8220;the next decade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FOX Business&#8217; Robert McGreevy contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CFRA Research Senior Vice President Angelo Zino joins &#8216;Making Money&#8217; to discuss Microsoft stock as CFRA raises its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-599693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}