Mark Zuckerberg says of AI safety, "other labs can just do this too"

On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that rivalry among AI developers and legal liability already push each company to handle safety independently, diverging from recent appeals for the industry to advance more cautiously together. In an X post, he said Meta Superintelligence Labs uses outside reviewers in several areas and described such steps as ones other companies can take on their own. His comments followed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for firms to reduce how quickly they enhanced their systems, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk endorsed. President Donald Trump on Monday downplayed AI harm concerns, saying U.S. safeguards sufficed; FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson also questioned AI firms seeking antitrust waivers while pushing for rules. The split among executives and officials reflects disagreement over how to manage warnings that AI is advancing faster than oversight.