Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff, Toadies ⇥ cnbc.com

Greg Iacurci, CNBC

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Saturday called for advanced artificial intelligence systems to be built with containment, independent controls and an “emergency brake” that lets authorized people pause or shut a model down mid-task.

“We need to surround non-deterministic models with strong, deterministic system design, human controls, and reliable operating procedures, and establish industry standards where existing ones are insufficient,” Nadella wrote in a post on social media platform X.

What Nadella actually wrote is an essay which does not contain the word “artificial”, but instead uses the phrase “super intelligence” four times and otherwise — because it is obvious and embarrassing what he is doing — simply refers to the technology as “intelligence”.

Marc Benioff, also on X:

The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce.

There is no legal or moral requirement to replace the vocabulary of “artificial intelligence” unless one is trying to appease a dumb and unpopular administration. Truly spineless stuff from Nadella and Benioff alike.