Microsoft’s AI tour \u2013 aside from some awkward scalability issues at London’s Excel (if you saw the queue for the badge collection, you’ll know what we mean) \u2013 was unsurprisingly all about the company’s ambitions for AI. Copilot featured large, and so did the “infinite set of minds” (Nadella’s words) afforded by AI-powered agents. But the elephant in the keynote auditorium \u2013 almost omnipresent on the screens but not directly addressed \u2013 was the fact AI output cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n
Satya Nadella delivering the keynote for Microsoft’s London AI tour<\/p>\n For every whizzbang demonstration showing AI tools collating data in Excel, or creating and executing test plans for websites, there was a message warning that the output of AI tools can’t be entirely trusted, and needs human verification.<\/p>\n Even a command-line demonstration had the warning: “Copilot uses AI. Check for mistakes.”<\/p>\n In a conference heavy on the joys of AI, the on-screen warnings and reminders highlight that AI is far from infallible.<\/p>\n Although the conference leaned heavily into UK AI use cases \u2013 including a doctor describing time savings in patient interactions and the oft-cited 26-minute statistic<\/a> for civil servants \u2013 Microsoft avoided mentioning West Midlands Police’s Copilot mishap, in which the tool hallucinated a football match<\/a>. The force’s Chief Constable, Craig Guildford, later took early retirement.<\/p>\n But as the keynote screens made clear, AI output cannot be trusted, and “nobody wants anything that is sloppy.” That’s especially true when making policing decisions or calculating the capacity of a conference center. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it OK to say “slop” again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-445945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Satya](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nadella.jpg\" "\\"Satya")
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