Microsoft President Brad Smith: AI Systems Need an ‘Emergency Brake’

Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith says some AI regulation is inevitable and argues that advanced AI systems should have an "emergency brake" that allows them to be slowed or shut down. In a conversation with WSJ Leadership Institute President Alan Murray, Smith explains why AI developers, cloud providers and companies deploying AI agents should all have the ability to stop systems that behave in unexpected or unsafe ways. Video Transcript 00:00 Speaker A at some point, some type of regulation is inevitable. 00:05 Speaker A Um, I just think if you look at the course of history and every product that is on the market today, especially anything with broad ramifications.