AI Regulation Showdown: Zuckerberg Wants Speed, Sanders Calls for a Pause
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Senator Bernie Sanders staked out opposite ends of US AI regulation on Thursday. Zuckerberg called a national regulator flawed, while Sanders moved to ban advanced AI.
Those two positions now bracket the fight in Washington. One camp wants industry to police itself while the other wants the government to stop building.
Zuckerberg Says AI Regulation Would Hand China the Lead
Trump called Zuckerberg the week of August 17, POLITICO reported Thursday. Zuckerberg opposed a proposed watchdog modeled on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
FINRA polices US brokerages and is funded by the firms it oversees. The AI version would test frontier models for risk before release. Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis popularized the idea in July.
Zuckerberg had already argued that superintelligence should reach everyone rather than a few labs.
"Any policy that slows American model releases โฆ could add significant risk to American leadership while letting foreign models race ahead," Zuckerberg said in August.
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