In a BBC interview published October 12, Microsoft President Brad Smith called for an international framework of AI safety rules, observing that milk and washing machines face more oversight than artificial intelligence. His proposals:
- independent evaluation of frontier models before release
- mandatory reporting of AI incidents
- a duty to notify organizations breached by rogue AI agents
- an emergency brake to pause systems that go wrong
Two days earlier, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged companies to treat AI models as insiders that may be compromised, and to keep the power to stop them mid-task in human hands.
These remain calls for policy, not rules in force. The Boston Global Forum welcomes them. When the leaders of one of the world’s largest AI companies ask for binding safeguards, the question is no longer whether such rules are needed, but how they will work.
The AIWS Trust Order, initiated by BGF through the Tokyo Compact at Interop Tokyo on June 12, 2026, already sets out that architecture:
- an AI Incident Exchange for reporting
- an Emergency Protocol
- a Designated Human Answerer who holds the authority to stop a system and answers for it
- the AIWS Trust Observatory for independent evaluation and early warning, grounded in society’s right to know
→ Read: Beacon Papers No. 12, The AI Race Needs a Trust Order, and No. 13, AI Power Must Not Operate Unseen
