Microsoft’s Brad Smith – Vice Chair and President of the world’s most valuable firm – has shared a detailed set of principles that guide their new and fast-growing AI business:

Like other general-purpose technologies in the past, AI is creating a new sector of the economy. This new AI economy is creating not just new opportunities for existing enterprises, but new companies and entirely new business categories. The principles we’re announcing today commit Microsoft to bigger investments, more business partnerships, and broader programs to promote innovation and competition than any prior initiative in the company’s 49-year history. By publishing these principles, we are committing ourselves to providing the broad technology access needed to empower organizations and individuals around the world to develop and use AI in ways that will serve the public good.

Public good… is something that takes some time to emerge. Here’s hoping.

Read the principles here.