diff --git a/cmake/tools/SetupZig.cmake b/cmake/tools/SetupZig.cmake
index 46981f2990..3f9f0a10b8 100644
--- a/cmake/tools/SetupZig.cmake
+++ b/cmake/tools/SetupZig.cmake
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ optionx(ZIG_OBJECT_FORMAT "obj|bc" "Output file format for Zig object files" DEF
 
 optionx(ZIG_LOCAL_CACHE_DIR FILEPATH "The path to local the zig cache directory" DEFAULT ${CACHE_PATH}/zig/local)
 optionx(ZIG_GLOBAL_CACHE_DIR FILEPATH "The path to the global zig cache directory" DEFAULT ${CACHE_PATH}/zig/global)
-optionx(ZIG_COMPILER_SAFE BOOL "Download a ReleaseSafe build of the Zig compiler. Only availble on macos aarch64." DEFAULT OFF)
+optionx(ZIG_COMPILER_SAFE BOOL "Download a ReleaseSafe build of the Zig compiler. Only availble on macos aarch64." DEFAULT ${CI})
 
 setenv(ZIG_LOCAL_CACHE_DIR ${ZIG_LOCAL_CACHE_DIR})
 setenv(ZIG_GLOBAL_CACHE_DIR ${ZIG_GLOBAL_CACHE_DIR})