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Washington's Two AI Regulator Options Are Both Industry-Run

The proposal would have an industry-funded body test advanced models before wider release, and it remains under consideration in the White House.

  • During a phone call the week of August 17, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told President Donald Trump he opposed a proposed FINRA-style AI regulator, with Trump initiating the conversation.
  • Nobel Prize-winning Google DeepMind scientist Demis Hassabis championed the proposal in a July essay, suggesting a standards body modeled after FINRA to handle emerging cybersecurity threats in AI.
  • FINRA oversees over 3,000 member brokerage firms and 630,000 registered representatives under SEC supervision, with White House officials envisioning an AI version funded by industry fees to test advanced models before deployment.
  • Zuckerberg argued in an August essay that any policy slowing model release by even a month would "add significant risk to American leadership" over China, though the FINRA-style proposal remains under White House consideration.
  • Trump's former AI and crypto czar David Sacks proposed an MPA-style alternative on the August 21 All-In podcast episode, calling the FINRA model "a DMV for AI" where models "get lined up in a queue, waiting to get their test done.
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