Adding on to the ongoing debate around AI safety that Anthropic’s Amodei sparked, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has presented a different take on it. While he has banked for independent third-party evaluations as “best practice” to prevent AI harm, he hasn’t backed the need to slow down the pace of development. This would represent the first such dissent — apart from the recent Donald Trump/Jensen Huang theatrics — to what xAI’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have openly backed.
In an X post on Tuesday, Zuckerberg pushed back against the growing consensus forming around Dario Amodei’s call for coordinated AI pacing. His argument: markets, liability, and competitive pressure already do the job that top-down coordination is supposedly needed for.
“Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens,” Zuckerberg wrote.
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Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.
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— Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) September 15, 2026
Jensen Huang sided with Zuckerberg, arguing that companies can pursue both safety and speed — a position that will surprise nobody given Nvidia’s direct financial interest in accelerated AI development at every lab simultaneously. US president Donald Trump too nodded with Huang’s view, an agreement that was on public display in a recent conference when Trump dialled in Huang and both spoke on speaker, right at the event.
Zuckerberg’s push to position Meta as a responsible actor on AI safety comes weeks after the company agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle US state lawsuits alleging it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, without admitting wrongdoing.
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