Microsoft has published a provisional code of conduct that would place restrictions on its artificial intelligence models, days after executives at Anthropic and OpenAI agreed to slow the pace of AI development.

The Windows and Office maker is seeking to position itself as a responsible player in the AI industry, where it is also a major cloud services provider.

“We got feedback from people that they wanted to see even more explicit commitment to AI always working in service of people and not trying to replace them,” Mustafa Suleyman, who heads up the company’s model development, told CNBC in an interview. “We saw a lot of feedback around AI not creating dependence, not being sycophantic, that it was always there to kind of promote human judgment and human autonomy and agency.”

Microsoft decided to release the guidelines now in response to the growing debate around AI safety, although the framework has been in development for about five months, said Suleyman.

Concerns among AI practitioners and members of the public have grown as the technology becomes increasingly capable. Last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, arguing that Anthropic and OpenAI were “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”

The concerns have also drawn responses from industry leaders. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the Hugging Face incident partly influenced his decision to call for a slower pace of AI model development. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backed the call, while SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on X that “Dario is right.”