Satya Nadella says a company's relationship with AI should have trust issues
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Treating AI models as compromised by default moves them from “magic assistant” to untrusted third-party code that must be sandboxed, logged, and rate-limited. If your security team isn’t already threat-modeling model outputs and prompt channels, you’re behind Microsoft’s public stance on AI risk.
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