Zuckerberg Told Trump a National AI Regulator Was Flawed
Business Insider reported on September 3 that Mark Zuckerberg, on a private call with President Trump the week of August 17, called a proposed national AI regulator a flawed idea. The plan, popularized by DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, would build a FINRA-style body to review frontier models before broad deployment. White House aides had previewed it with Meta and other labs in mid-August. Zuckerberg did not need to invent a new argument. In an August essay he already warned that delaying a model release by even a month would hand China the lead. The call is how that argument reaches the Oval Office.