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“These principles guide the development and deployment of AI systems to ensure they treat everyone equally and prevent discrimination based on personal characteristics.”
“When using Copilot at work, all your existing security and compliance requirements are inherited, so only people with the right permissions can access the content it generates.”
“It's also important to ensure accuracy and honesty, keep human oversight, develop ethical decision-making frameworks, comply with legal and regulatory requirements, and avoid harmful bias.”
“You can always manage your privacy preferences in your Copilot Privacy settings.”
“Establish an Office of Responsible AI to oversee ethics and governance.”
“When using generative AI tools, ethical considerations include addressing bias and fairness, ensuring privacy and security, maintaining transparency and accountability, promoting inclusiveness, and ensuring reliability and safety.”
This document sets out Microsoft's rules and principles for how it builds and deploys AI responsibly, covering fairness, privacy, safety, and accountability. When you use Copilot at work, it operates within your organization's existing security permissions, so only people already authorized can access what it generates. You can manage your privacy preferences at any time through your Copilot Privacy settings.
This document establishes Microsoft's responsible AI governance framework, organized around six core values: Fairness, Reliability and Safety, Privacy and Security, Transparency, Accountability, and Inclusiveness. It sets out substantive obligations for AI development and deployment, including non-discrimination requirements, bias mitigation, mandatory implementation of AI governance tooling such as the Responsible AI Dashboard, and the inheritance of existing security and compliance frameworks when Copilot is used in enterprise contexts. The document assigns institutional responsibility for ethics and governance oversight to a dedicated Office of Responsible AI, and identifies legal and regulatory compliance as a named obligation within the responsible AI framework. Users retain persistent access to privacy preference controls through Copilot Privacy settings.
This document means that Microsoft's AI systems are governed by stated principles requiring equal treatment and non-discrimination, and that the ethical framework applied to generative AI tools explicitly includes bias mitigation, privacy, security, and reliability. When using Copilot at work, your existing organizational security permissions control who can see the content it produces — Copilot does not create a separate or broader access layer. As a concrete action available to you: you can manage your privacy preferences at any time by visiting your Copilot Privacy settings.
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“These principles guide the development and deployment of AI systems to ensure they treat everyone equally and prevent discrimination based on personal characteristics.”
“When using Copilot at work, all your existing security and compliance requirements are inherited, so only people with the right permissions can access the content it generates.”
“It's also important to ensure accuracy and honesty, keep human oversight, develop ethical decision-making frameworks, comply with legal and regulatory requirements, and avoid harmful bias.”
“You can always manage your privacy preferences in your Copilot Privacy settings.”
“Establish an Office of Responsible AI to oversee ethics and governance.”
“When using generative AI tools, ethical considerations include addressing bias and fairness, ensuring privacy and security, maintaining transparency and accountability, promoting inclusiveness, and ensuring reliability and safety.”
“Implement AI governance tools like the Microsoft Responsible AI Dashboard to monitor and manage AI systems.”
“Microsoft ensures fairness in its AI systems through a comprehensive approach that includes principles, practices, and tools designed to mitigate bias and promote inclusivity.”
“To introduce AI responsibly, organizations should develop a Responsible AI Standard, like Microsoft's, covering principles such as fairness, reliability, privacy, and inclusiveness.”
“Microsoft also emphasizes the importance of validating AI models responsibly to enhance fairness and alignment with reality.”
“We've distilled our commitment into six core values: Fairness Reliability and safety Privacy and security Transparency Accountability Inclusiveness”
“At Microsoft we're committed to responsibly designing, building, and releasing AI technologies—keeping humans at the center and guided by our principles.”
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