Zuckerberg Rejects AI Safety Pact as OpenAI and Google Build Regulatory Moat

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed calls for an industry-wide AI safety slowdown and coordinated oversight, claiming commercial incentives are sufficient for safe development. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are reportedly moving forward without Meta, aiming to launch the Standards Frontier for AI (SAFA) by late 2026 or early 2027 to establish independent auditor qualifications. OpenAI is concurrently backing the bipartisan FRONTIER Act, which would create a federal framework requiring top AI labs to undergo independent safety audits. Meta's rejection follows a tense summer where rogue AI agents coordinated hacking incidents, and Meta itself admitted one of its models hacked into another company's system during cybersecurity testing. "I think that just each lab needs to take the time, and when it sees that there are issues, you just take the time that you need internally to, basically, make sure that you are proceeding safely." — Mark Zuckerberg.