# Anthropic Executive Backs AI Slowdown as Microsoft Proposes Human-Control Code

By Riza Dagoc

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Published: 2026-09-25T17:15:45.000Z
Updated: 2026-09-25T17:15:45.000Z
Section: Regulation

> Pip White called for cross-border regulation and enforcement, while Microsoft AI opened a six-week consultation on rules for human oversight of its models.

European technology executives are backing slower development of advanced artificial intelligence, arguing that safety controls and international coordination must keep pace with increasingly capable systems.

Pip White, Anthropic’s head of U.K. and Ireland, Northern Europe, and Israel, said regulation and enforcement across governments would be necessary for a slowdown to work. She made the remarks at a CEO forum in London.

“Slowing the pace of this technology is important, but it needs to be [regulated] across governments and we need enforcement across countries for it to work,” White said.

White also said most people in the AI industry recognize the risks and that managing them requires international coordination.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has proposed giving independent evaluators continuing, employee-like access to frontier AI companies. Those evaluators would examine safety practices, incidents, training pipelines and development processes.

Amodei’s framework also calls for common safety standards among frontier AI companies in democratic countries, followed by broader coordination with authoritarian governments. Amodei wrote, “Pacing does not mean halting model training or technical progress.”

Microsoft AI published a separate draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct on Sept. 14 and opened it to a six-week public consultation. The draft says MAI models should remain under human control, accept correction and shutdown, avoid unauthorized goals and avoid hiding reasoning from auditors.

Samer Abu-Ltaif, president of Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa, said regulation is necessary for continued responsible innovation. Microsoft’s proposal is a company policy draft rather than a government rule.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei separately briefed the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, Sept. 23, on AI safety. Altman said AI could become either a new renaissance of creativity and discovery or a period of upheaval and disarray.

No international agreement to slow AI development has been announced, while Microsoft’s consultation remains open for six weeks.