Mark Zuckerberg
Role at the time: Founder and CEO, Meta Platforms
Statement summary
Mark Zuckerberg argued AI labs have a natural incentive to ensure safety without needing government-mandated coordination, while saying Meta remains open to independent evaluators.
“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... 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.”
Forbes report, citing the Wall Street Journal, that Zuckerberg, Musk, and Huang separately called Trump and convinced him to block a proposed FINRA-style, industry-funded AI regulator. Also quotes Zuckerberg's X post on AI safety and Musk's reaction to Jacob Coxon's resignation warnings.
Why we used this label
On should Washington impose stronger AI safeguards, Zuckerberg argues labs can self-regulate without government mandates -- matching the established pattern in this case where opposition to mandated safeguards is classified condemns (e.g. Huang, Johnson, Vance), not “Challenged the characterization”.