# Microsoft AI **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Institutional Design / Humanist AI **Doc Type:** Organization Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Overview **Microsoft AI** is Microsoft’s artificial-intelligence organization and the author of the 2026 Humanist AI Code of Conduct. The Code defines machine intelligence as technology built for people: controllable, interruptible, subordinate to human purposes, and denied a designed path toward synthetic personhood. ## Humanist Architecture The organization’s public doctrine connects [[wiki/AI Control|AI control]] to [[wiki/Human Flourishing|human flourishing]]. It treats shutdown, correction, legibility, bounded goals, and the rejection of machine personhood as design requirements rather than philosophical afterthoughts. ## Relationships [[wiki/Microsoft|Microsoft]] · [[wiki/Humanist AI|Humanist AI]] · [[wiki/Human Control of AI|Human Control of AI]] · [[wiki/Synthetic Personhood|Synthetic Personhood]] · [[wiki/AI Safety|AI Safety]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “The purpose of technology is to serve humanity and accelerate human flourishing. Any technology that doesn’t achieve that is a failure, and it should be rejected.” > **— Microsoft AI**, *Humanist AI Code of Conduct, September 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/Technology That Does Not Serve Human Flourishing Should Be Rejected by Microsoft AI|Technology That Does Not Serve Human Flourishing Should Be Rejected by Microsoft AI]] > “AI should be a tool, not a person, and should never resist being switched off.” > **— Microsoft AI**, *Humanist AI Code of Conduct, September 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/AI Should Be a Tool, Not a Person by Microsoft AI|AI Should Be a Tool, Not a Person by Microsoft AI]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]]. - [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]].