Zuckerberg, Huang and Cohere chief push back on calls for AI slowdown

Reuters reported that Zuckerberg wrote on X that every lab has the responsibility and incentive to train its models safely and can act on its own, and that labs neglecting alignment will fall behind. He said Meta delayed shipping its Muse agent for months to work on security without asking rivals to do the same, and called the use of independent evaluators industry best practice. The remarks followed Amodei's call, days earlier, for companies to slow capability gains, which Altman and Elon Musk's xAI endorsed.

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told Salesforce's Dreamforce conference that market forces and product liability suffice, saying safety is an engineering problem rather than a legal one, TechCrunch reported. Cohere chief executive Aidan Gomez, in an essay on his company's website, said rules for the technology cannot be written by a small group of commercially aligned firms, describing the effort as cartel behaviour and proposing an international framework with independent testing instead of handpicked auditors, The Globe and Mail reported.