Expert takes Sep 15, 2026

This week · posted September 13

What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stressed about the slowdown proposal was not speed but who holds control.

Nadella welcomed "deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal" and the idea of embedded evaluators, but wrote that "this cannot be controlled by a handful of entities, but must have broad representation across the ecosystem, countries, and fields, including academia," and said Microsoft would publish the code of conduct behind its own models for public consultation (Satya Nadella, 2026-09-13). ⚠️ We read the post through Zvi's relay and did not check the original directly. Which of our calls it supports or rebuts: it points the same way as the judgment we have long tracked, that the ability to evaluate is concentrated in a few private organizations, and this time it comes from the chief executive of a major technology company. ⇒ Before you read any industry coordination plan, ask who is on the list and who is not.