Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues in his quest to keep his company from being stymied in catching up to competitors in the AI race, and his latest gambit is another cheerleading post in which he suggests that only good, benevolent AIs will rule the day.
Not satisfied with that seemingly out-of-touch August essay in which he jumped on a bandwagon that included Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calling for an open-source future for AI, Mark Zuckerberg has moved to another medium — Xitter — to pen a few bullet points about why he doesn't think the AI race needs to slow down, at least for Meta.
"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 writes, again striking a tone that seems pollyanna-ish given everything we've heard and learned about rogue agents the last few months.
These thoughts come several days after, and likely in direct response to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei making a public call for a slowdown of the AI race, though Zuckerberg does not mention Amodei by name. He's also posting this as many AI discussions are happening at Dreamforce in San Francisco this week
"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 adds, and to which doomsayers will respond, "What about when the agents get too smart and leap out of their own "boxes" as it were?
"Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely," Zuckerberg says, clearly making a pitch for what Meta's Muse AI will do. And, he says, "Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well."
Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://t.co/1KtONlqBs5 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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September 15, 2026 The "put your trust in me, I'll never do you harm" gambit is perhaps not best delivered by a man who presided over a massive data privacy scandal, and who turned tail to suck up to the monster Donald Trump in the last two years just to protect his own bottom line.
Also, Zuckerberg is one of many CEOs who are currently putting profit and machines over humanity, slashing staff at Meta to a major degree and shifting work into the hands of AI agents. Is that "serving people"?
He finishes his bulleted thoughts by saying, curiously, "I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do."
That certainly prompts the question, where does Meta fit in that balance of power? And who is even determining this balance?
We should all know by now that Zuck isn't really the sharpest mind to be thinking through the massive sociological, economic, and existential problems we may face in the coming years because of AI, let alone the one to be leading any charge.
And, anyway, this all just seems to be about plugging Meta's personalized AI agent Muse, which launched last week, and which Zuckerberg says was delayed "for several months to focus on safety and security."
Cue something truly awful coming out about this AI agent any day now that their safety review didn't foresee.
Previously: Mark Zuckerberg Pens Arguably Out of Touch and Self-Serving Manifesto About the Future of AI