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Zuckerberg rejects calls to slow AI development, citing market incentives for safety
September 18, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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2 reports · 1 in Arabic, 1 in English · over 5 hours
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pushed back against industry calls to slow AI development, arguing companies face enough commercial and legal pressure to build safe systems.
- Zuckerberg said Meta delayed shipping its Muse AI model for several months to focus on safety, without asking rivals to follow suit.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for a coordinated slowdown of AI development, endorsed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk.
- Zuckerberg said competition would push companies to invest in safety, as losing user trust or legal liability would impose heavy costs on unregulated developers.
- China's foreign ministry accused American AI companies of "fear mongering" over calls to slow development of frontier systems.