The world’s biggest tech leaders are drawing lines in the sand over whether AI development should slow its progress to protect against a potential catastrophe. Mark Zuckerberg just chose his side, distancing himself from the camp of AI safety hawks (and chief among them Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei) who have called for AI labs to pace their development to mitigate the risk of an advanced, superintelligent AI spiraling out of human control.
In a social media post Tuesday, the Meta CEO implied slowing down AI development isn’t necessary because frontier AI companies have other incentives, including market forces, that will keep them in check. And ultimately, that comes down to the customer being always right.
