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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have both voiced their opinions on AI safety concerns. This weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei advocated for government intervention to help companies simultaneously slow the development of self-improving AI models, ensuring each releases only safe-to-use technology.
Jensen Huang spoke to CNBC on Tuesday, arguing directly against regulation for AI firms. Huang said, “The fact that we need new laws, new antitrust laws, or new regulations, so that these companies could do their fundamental engineering and do it properly before they release products, that is just completely unnecessary. We have plenty of laws. We have plenty of regulations that govern the reliability and the functionality of products.”
Huang said safety is important in AI development, but the onus is on each company to ensure proper testing is conducted. He said, “We should create products and properly test them. And if they’re not ready to be released, just hold on to it and keep testing it and keep engineering until it’s ready.”
Zuckerberg also disagrees with Amodei's message, taking to social media to say that while safety is important, it should be each company's responsibility. In a post on X, Zuckerberg said, “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.”
He confirmed Meta delayed its most recent Muse model for "several months" due to internal safety concerns. Zuckerberg said, “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. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built.”
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He also suggested that Meta's rivals should engage more independent evaluators and advisors to ensure they follow safe development practices. He said Meta does this, and “other labs can just do this too.” He also hopes for an expansion of the third-party AI evaluator industry to make it easier for firms to ensure they're safely following rules.
Zuckerberg and Huang were notably absent from the conversation in the first few days after Amodei's call to action was published. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis have all spoken positively about Anthropic's suggestion of a collective three-prong approach to slow development.
Anthropic's plan includes expanding third-party evaluators within each AI company, alongside a call for a set of safety standards developed in conjunction with the US government. He also believes the US government should enter into agreements with foreign countries to limit potentially dangerous use cases of AI.
However, US President Donald Trump doesn't agree with Amodei's plan, arguing against regulation for what he calls the AI safety "hoax." Trump said over the weekend, “We could put guardrails. We can do this and that. But I think you have a lot of very negative forces that are...bringing up things that won’t happen."
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