Every binding AI review Washington has proposed has come back voluntary. Zuckerberg reportedly rang Trump about the latest one.

Mark Zuckerberg told Donald Trump in a mid-August call that he opposed a proposed national AI regulator, urging that any appointees reflect the president’s light-touch stance. The administration is weighing two self-regulation models: a FINRA-style industry-funded review body for pre-deployment risk testing, and a voluntary MPA-style rating scheme. Past binding proposals have consistently been softened to voluntary frameworks after industry pressure.