Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will commit most of its compute to serving people rather than racing toward recursive self-improvement

The process by which an AI system improves its own capabilities, enabling increasingly effective further improvements.

The September 2026 debate sparked by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier", which argues that AI development should be deliberately slowed so that safety, alignment and interpretability can keep pace, and sets out a three-step plan spanning company commitments, coordination among democracies, and US-China agreements.