Meta Platforms Inc.Zuckerberg argues competition and legal liability give AI firms ample incentive to self-regulate safety, breaking with calls for a coordinated slowdown.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta Platforms, said on the 15th that competition and legal liability give artificial intelligence companies ample incentive to adopt safety measures on their own. The remarks are seen as setting him apart from AI leaders who have called for a coordinated slowdown in the pace of development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the 12th for reining in the pace of AI development, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk of xAI said they supported the idea. U.S. President Trump said on the 14th that doubts about AI regulation only benefit China, dismissing concerns about the potential harms of AI. In a post on X, Zuckerberg said developers face the prospect of serious legal liability, giving them a strong incentive to prevent harm from AI models, and cited Meta's decision this year to delay the rollout of its AI agent Muse in order to strengthen security. Amodei sought an industry-wide slowdown out of concern over recursive self-improvement, in which AI improves itself, but Zuckerberg explained that Meta already directs most of its computing resources toward building products that serve users' needs rather than pursuing self-improving AI systems. He also said his company's AI division already uses independent evaluators in several areas, which he called 'industry best practice' and said 'other organizations just need to do the same.'
Meta Platforms Inc.Zuckerberg argues competition and legal liability give AI firms ample incentive to self-regulate safety, breaking with calls for a coordinated slowdown.