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Satya Nadella

Chairman and chief executive of Microsoft who has called for an emergency brake on advanced AI, arguing that a model must be assumed compromised and contained from the start and that the supply of intelligence must be separated from the authority over it.

Roles

  1. 2014 – presentChief Executive Officer, MicrosoftThe source prints the year and not a day, so the year is the precision carried here. Succeeded Steve Ballmer.Source →
  2. 2021 – presentChairman, MicrosoftYear precision, as printed. Succeeded John W. Thompson.Source →

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  1. 10 Oct 2026 · Post · X

    In other words, we need to separate the supply of intelligence from the authority over it.

    Chairman, Microsoft at the time

    The closing line of the same post, printed by ThePrint and by Telangana Today.

    Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era →

  2. 10 Oct 2026 · Post · X

    We can’t treat Super Intelligence as a set of nested black boxes and simply accept or reject its recommendations, answers, and actions … We must build contained systems whose behavior we can observe, limits we can test, and actions we can always contain.

    Chairman, Microsoft at the time

    Same post. The ellipsis again marks the attribution tag the page prints between the two blocks. Telangana Today carries the first sentence identically.

    Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era →

  3. 10 Oct 2026 · Post · X

    We must assume a model is compromised and contain it from the start … Think of it like an emergency brake. An authorized person should always be able to pause or shut down a model mid-task.

    Chairman, Microsoft at the time

    Posted on X; the source is the newsroom that reproduces the words, since a register entry is not rested on an x.com URL alone. The ellipsis stands where the page prints an attribution tag (“,” Nadella wrote. “), so the two halves are consecutive blocks of the same remark; the first half ends on that attribution comma and is rendered without final punctuation. The day is the page's own: it was published Sunday 11 October and says he wrote it “Saturday”.

    Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era →