{"slug": "metas-zuckerberg-weighs-in-on-ai-safety-favours-evaluators-over-slowdown", "title": "Meta’s Zuckerberg weighs in on AI safety; favours evaluators over slowdown", "summary": "Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said AI labs should rely on independent evaluators and advisers to ensure model safety, writing on X on Tuesday (Sep 15) that \"engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice.\" Zuckerberg said Meta delayed shipping its Muse AI tool for several months to focus on safety and security, and did so without asking peers to slow down first. The comments follow Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's 3,800-word essay urging a slowdown in the most advanced AI development, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk endorsed.", "body_md": "# Meta’s Zuckerberg weighs in on AI safety; favours evaluators over slowdown\n\n‘Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice’, he says\n\n[NEW YORK] Meta Platforms chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said artificial intelligence labs should rely on independent evaluators and advisers to ensure that models are safe.\n\n“Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice,” Zuckerberg wrote on Tuesday (Sep 15) in a post on X, joining a growing chorus of technology executives weighing in on a [global debate over the best way to prevent AI systems from harming humanity](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/startups-tech/technology/google-deepmind-staffer-says-ai-may-kill-us-all-exit-post). \n\nSome company officials have voiced support for slowing the pace of AI development and advocated working together to achieve consensus.\n\nMeta decided on its own to slow work on Muse AI tool, rather than ask peers to also check their own progress first, Zuckerberg wrote.\n\n“Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security,” he wrote.\n\n“We didn’t call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us.”\n\nA turbulent debate over AI’s economic and safety risks accelerated over the weekend with a 3,800-word essay from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who [urged a slowdown in the pace of development of the most advanced systems](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/global/anthropic-ceo-urges-slower-ai-development-altman-musk-rally-behind-call) so researchers can better understand potential threats.\n\nOpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk – whose companies are bitter rivals to Anthropic – endorsed Amodei’s missive, and an OpenAI executive said the company was working with Anthropic and Alphabet’s Google on AI safety. BLOOMBERG\n\nDecoding Asia newsletter: your guide to navigating Asia in a new global order. Sign up here to get Decoding Asia newsletter. Delivered to your inbox. Free.\n\nShare with us your feedback on BT's products and services", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-zuckerberg-weighs-in-on-ai-safety-favours-evaluators-over-slowdown", "canonical_source": "https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/startups-tech/technology/metas-zuckerberg-weighs-ai-safety-favours-evaluators-over-slowdown", "published_at": "2026-09-16 00:50:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 01:07:01.637218+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Meta Platforms", "Mark Zuckerberg", "Muse", "Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "Elon Musk"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-zuckerberg-weighs-in-on-ai-safety-favours-evaluators-over-slowdown", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-zuckerberg-weighs-in-on-ai-safety-favours-evaluators-over-slowdown.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-zuckerberg-weighs-in-on-ai-safety-favours-evaluators-over-slowdown.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-zuckerberg-weighs-in-on-ai-safety-favours-evaluators-over-slowdown.jsonld"}}