Satya Nadella says he changed his mind about whether making AI more powerful would also make it safer
THE SO WHAT
When Microsoft’s CEO says scaling may not solve alignment, that legitimizes a separate safety and governance track rather than treating it as an emergent property of bigger models. Enterprise buyers should start asking vendors for concrete alignment roadmaps and controls, not just capability benchmarks.
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