Meta's Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely

His remarks come three days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged AI companies to slow the pace at which they improve model capabilities, on the heels of existential risk warnings by several researchers.

Rival OpenAI's chief Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk both publicly endorsed Amodei's call within hours.

"Trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models," Zuckerberg said Tuesday. "Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind."

Zuckerberg also said Tuesday that labs had a strong incentive to prevent their models from causing harm as they would face "significant" liability otherwise. He pointed to Meta delaying the release of its Muse AI agent earlier this year to strengthen its security.

"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," he said.