Microsoft president urges urgent AI regulation and says UK is best placed to lead
Microsoft president Brad Smith told the BBC AI is both a 'weapon and a tool' and called for urgent global safety rules, arguing the UK — not the US or EU — is best placed to lead. He highlighted the AI Security Institute's access to frontier models, advocated legal breach-notification obligations, outside evaluators and kill-switches, and warned voluntary self-regulation will miss irresponsible actors.