🚨NEW: Mark Zuckerberg told Trump in a phone call that the WH plan to create a FINRA-like body to regulate AI is flawed
- Demis Hassabis briefed WH officials this summer about his idea for a FINRA-style regulator
- senior WH officials previewed the idea w/ Trump and separately w/ major tech companies, including Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, in mid-August
- But when Trump spoke with Zuckerberg week of Aug. 17, Zuckerberg said he opposed the proposal, according to a senior WH official
- Another person familiar said Zuckerberg did not ask Trump to change his position, but told him that people the WH might appoint to the regulatory body should reflect Trump’s own approach to AI, which is widely seen as light-touch.
-Trump called Zuckerberg first, that person added.
-The admin is now considering two paths forward: the FINRA-style regulator, or a group with less government involvement modeled on the Motion Picture Association, as David Sacks has proposed.
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