Meta's Zuckerberg rejected an AI slowdown. OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei backed one.
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told NBC News on 24 September that AI companies do not need to agree on a common pace.
"I don't think that we need some kind of industrywide coordination," he said. "I happen to think that there's plenty of commercial incentive to get this right."
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had called for that coordination in an essay asking companies to jointly "pace the frontier". OpenAI's Sam Altman endorsed the idea, NBC reported. Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis backed it too, as did Elon Musk.
Zuckerberg said each lab should "take the time that you need internally to basically make sure that you're proceeding safely." He added: "There's a lot of rhetoric that is filled with doom."
Meta released its own AI agent, Muse, on 8 September. NBC says it became the most popular free app on Apple's App Store and Google Play.
If each lab sets its own pace, which of its safety promises are written into your contract?
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