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Zuckerberg rejects AI development slowdown, backs company-led safety
September 16, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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3 reports · 2 in Arabic, 1 in English · over 13 hours
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected collective frameworks to slow AI development, saying individual companies bear responsibility for their own models' safety.
- Zuckerberg said AI companies need no collective framework to slow development, asserting each firm bears the responsibility and incentive to ensure its models' safety.
- Zuckerberg said Meta delayed launching its AI agent Muse over safety concerns without waiting for other companies to do the same.
- OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have called for mechanisms to address the risks of rapid AI development.
- Zuckerberg warned that US policy slowing AI model launches could hurt American firms' competitiveness as China advances in the field.

