Microsoft President Brad Smith: AI Systems Need an ‘Emergency Brake’
Source: WSJ ·
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith says some AI regulation is inevitable and argues that advanced AI systems should have an “emergency brake” that allows them to be slowed or shut down. In a conversation with WSJ Leadership Institute President Alan Murray, Smith explains why AI developers, cloud providers and companies deploying AI agents should all have the ability to stop systems…
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Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith says some AI regulation is inevitable and argues that advanced AI systems should have an "emergency brake" that allows them to be slowed or shut down. In a conversation with WSJ Leadership Institute President Alan Murray, Smith explains why AI developers, cloud providers and companies deploying AI agents should all have the ability to stop systems that behave in unexpected or unsafe ways. at some point, some type of regulation is inevitable. Um, I just think if you look at the course of history and every product that is on the market today, especially anything with broad ramifications. I appreciate and even welcome those folks who say, let's not have regulation that is too heavy or too burdensome. Let's not have regulation that slows innovations that we badly need. Those are good voices to listen to. But there's all kinds of regulations that don't necessarily slow things down at all. I wrote something earlier this week that frankly just…