{"slug": "you-know-who-doesn-t-want-the-ai-race-to-slow-down-for-his-company-mark", "title": "You Know Who Doesn't Want the AI Race to Slow Down For His Company? Mark Zuckerberg", "summary": "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X on September 15, 2026 that the AI race should not slow down, arguing that \"every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely\" and that labs have a \"strong natural incentive\" to make models more aligned because users will reject misaligned agents. The post came days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly called for a slowdown of the AI race, which Zuckerberg did not mention by name, and coincided with AI discussions at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Zuckerberg's comments also promoted Meta's personalized AI agent Muse, which launched the prior week after a delay of \"several months.", "body_md": "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.\n\nNot satisfied with [that seemingly out-of-touch August essay](https://sfist.com/2026/08/11/mark-zuckerberg-pens-arguably-out-of-touch-manifesto-about-why-ai/) 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](https://x.com/finkd/status/2099997096896274533?ref=sfist.com) about why he doesn't think the AI race needs to slow down, at least for Meta.\n\n\"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.\n\nThese 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\n\n\"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?\n\n\"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.\"\n\nLast month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: [https://t.co/1KtONlqBs5](https://t.co/1KtONlqBs5?ref=sfist.com)\n\nEvery 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.\n\nThe…\n\n[September 15, 2026](https://x.com/finkd/status/2099997096896274533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=sfist.com)\n\nThe \"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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal?ref=sfist.com), and who turned tail to suck up to the monster Donald Trump in the last two years just to protect his own bottom line.\n\nAlso, Zuckerberg is one of many CEOs who are currently putting profit and machines over humanity, [slashing staff at Meta to a major degree](https://sfist.com/2026/03/16/facebook-planning-to-lay-off-thousands-of-employees-in-ai-driven-move-to-cut-costs/) and shifting work into the hands of AI agents. Is that \"serving people\"?\n\nHe 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.\"\n\nThat certainly prompts the question, where does Meta fit in that balance of power? And who is even determining this balance?\n\nWe 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.\n\nAnd, anyway, this all just seems to be about plugging Meta's personalized AI agent [Muse](https://muse.ai/?ref=sfist.com), which launched last week, and which Zuckerberg says was delayed \"for several months to focus on safety and security.\"\n\nCue something truly awful coming out about this AI agent any day now that their safety review didn't foresee.\n\n**Previously:** [Mark Zuckerberg Pens Arguably Out of Touch and Self-Serving Manifesto About the Future of AI](https://sfist.com/2026/08/11/mark-zuckerberg-pens-arguably-out-of-touch-manifesto-about-why-ai/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-know-who-doesn-t-want-the-ai-race-to-slow-down-for-his-company-mark", "canonical_source": "https://sfist.com/2026/09/16/you-know-who-doesnt-want-the-ai-race-to-slow-down-for-his-company-mark-zuckerberg/", "published_at": "2026-09-16 21:19:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 21:26:15.229028+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-agents", "ai-safety", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Mark Zuckerberg", "Meta", "Muse", "Dario Amodei", "Anthropic", "Dreamforce", "X", "Elon Musk"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-know-who-doesn-t-want-the-ai-race-to-slow-down-for-his-company-mark", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-know-who-doesn-t-want-the-ai-race-to-slow-down-for-his-company-mark.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-know-who-doesn-t-want-the-ai-race-to-slow-down-for-his-company-mark.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-know-who-doesn-t-want-the-ai-race-to-slow-down-for-his-company-mark.jsonld"}}