Meta CEO urges broad public access to superintelligent AI

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched a concerted public campaign advocating for the widespread distribution of advanced artificial intelligence, framing it as a tool for individual empowerment rather than a technology that should be controlled by a select few institutions. In an opinion essay published on July 28, along with a recent interview, Zuckerberg outlined his vision for putting "superintelligence" into the hands of billions of people through Meta's existing apps, countering what he describes as pervasive "doom" narratives from other AI developers.

Zuckerberg argued that the central question of the AI era is not whether superintelligence will be achieved, but who will have access to it. He positioned open, widely distributed AI as essential for U.S. competitiveness and a safeguard against the dangerous concentration of economic, scientific, and political power. He expressed skepticism toward rival labs that advocate for tightly controlled, closed AI systems due to safety concerns, stating it is "literally impossible to have a single benevolent superintelligence that is simultaneously aligned with everyone at once."

A core part of Zuckerberg's argument challenges...