Zuckerberg rejects calls to slow AI boom, says competition can ensure safer systems

The Meta chief pointed to the company’s decision to delay its Muse AI rollout as an example of safety measures being built into development.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pushed back against growing calls to slow down or pause the boom of Artificial Intelligence, arguing that competition between AI companies and the risk of legal liability can encourage developers to make their systems safer, according to AFP.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Zuckerberg said AI companies have a strong commercial reason to ensure their systems behave in ways users expect. He was responding to a wider debate over the risks posed by increasingly capable AI systems and whether companies should be allowed to regulate themselves.

"People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned," Zuckerberg wrote on X.