Microsoft President Brad Smith criticized the current US approach to AI policy as “regulation without transparent or complete rules” during a speech at the AI for Good Global Summit on July 9. Smith’s remarks followed the Trump administration’s June directive for the Commerce Department to impose export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over cybersecurity concerns, restrictions that were lifted in early July. Smith argued that export controls are fundamentally ill-suited for frontier AI models and referenced restrictive measures affecting OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 rollout, suggesting the problem extends beyond a single company. He noted that the government lacks the right tools for the job, and that the regulatory fog delays investment decisions across the tech sector. Microsoft published a detailed five-point blueprint for public AI policy in 2023, calling for clear guardrails rather than surprise enforcement actions.