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At this stage in the AI race, if one of your chatbots hasn\u2019t escaped the lab and run amok, people start to wonder whether you\u2019re even serious. Last month, OpenAI and then Anthropic disclosed that their models had hacked other companies\u2019 systems during internal testing. When Meta confirmed last week that one of its bots had also gone rogue, the news barely registered as an aftershock.<\/p>\n

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Remember Meta? A company that figured so prominently in the technological upheavals of the past 20 years has lately found itself in the unfamiliar position of no longer being Silicon Valley\u2019s main character. Mark Zuckerberg still commands social media\u2019s largest empire. Yet he has struggled to find the next thing. The metaverse, an extravagant bet on a weird virtual future, flopped. Meta\u2019s latest Ray-Ban glasses seem to be finding their way onto at least a few people\u2019s faces. But the company has fallen well behind Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in the industry\u2019s highest-stakes contest: building superhuman AI.<\/p>\n

When Zuckerberg isn\u2019t posting on Instagram about growing his own macadamia-nut trees, he\u2019s groping for a way back into the fray. He has started feverishly posting on Elon Musk\u2019s X, after eschewing it for years in favor of his own platforms. And on Monday, he published a 6,500-word essay on his vision for our AI-powered future\u2014his answer to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei\u2019s periodic treatises and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u2019s ruminative blog posts.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg\u2019s manifesto, titled \u201cThe Future Is for Everyone,\u201d might scan at first like the usual LinkedIn-evangelist-grade techno-optimist pablum. Like everyone else pushing AI these days, Zuckerberg predicts that it will lead to a new golden age of invention in medicine, technology, and the arts. At one point, he mentions that his daughter loves to bake, \u201cso my agent plans personalized recipes for us to make together each weekend.\u201d Like Amodei and Altman, he takes it as a given that godlike AI is just around the corner\u2014the essay mentions \u201csuperintelligence\u201d 55 times\u2014and assumes that if America doesn\u2019t race headlong to build it, China will get there first and achieve world domination.<\/p>\n

But the manifesto swerves in an unexpected direction: A man who singlehandedly commands a $1.5 trillion tech giant comes out as a critic of corporate power. \u201cThe notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently problematic,\u201d he writes. \u201cHistorically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes.\u201d Zuckerberg is referencing OpenAI and Anthropic, which operate on the premise that hyper-smart AI is both inevitable and apocalyptic\u2014and therefore safe only in the hands of the wisest custodians (themselves). The two AI companies have taken the recent spate of security breaches as a warning to rein in the pace of progress. The Meta chief positions himself as the voice of the little guy, calling for the industry\u2019s high priests to throw open the gates to the masses. \u201cRather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it,\u201d he proposes.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg may be the wrong messenger, but he has at least a kernel of a point: There are obvious problems with having a few tech titans deciding for everyone what AI should and should not be used for. (It\u2019s a role that he\u2019s familiar with as the man in charge of Facebook and Instagram\u2019s online-speech rules\u2014which he never seemed to relish.) To counter this, he defends the controversial practice of model distillation, which allows upstarts to train their own systems on the outputs of the largest ones. Along the way, he takes a swipe at the hypocrisy of firms that harvested humanity\u2019s creative works to build their machines yet now seek to bar others from doing the same to them.<\/p>\n

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Zuckerberg probably hasn\u2019t suddenly become a devotee of Lina Khan. Just last year, he testified that Meta\u2019s alleged dominance of social media was not a problem, on the grounds that TikTok gave people another option\u2014after his company\u2019s clandestine campaign to demonize TikTok had fueled Congress\u2019s push to ban it from the United States. Zuckerberg\u2019s embrace of checks and balances in the AI industry is just as opportunistic. A year ago, Meta was in the midst of a multibillion-dollar hiring spree to poach top talent from the leading labs in a bid to catch up with them. That hasn\u2019t fully panned out, and now the company is hedging its bets with an underdog strategy focused on releasing more lightweight models with fewer guardrails. The stand he\u2019s taking is a function of where he sits. (A spokesperson for Meta declined to comment.)<\/p>\n

At its core, Zuckerberg\u2019s essay is a lobbying document. He\u2019s joining a debate over open models that has flared up after a series of big breakthroughs from Chinese firms. At the same time, he\u2019s urging politicians to keep backing data-center build-outs in the face of a national backlash. That makes his criticisms of the industry\u2019s top dogs easy to dismiss as self-serving\u2014which is unfortunate, because a few of his ideas deserve a more credible champion. Among them is his contention that a more freewheeling AI landscape might actually help humans keep the technology in check. The idea is that the more people put different AI models to use for their own, often conflicting, ends, the lower the chance that any given model\u2019s power will spiral beyond our grasp. Analogously, he suggests that society\u2019s best defense against AI-fueled cyberattacks is to open the gates to AI-fueled cyberdefenses might sound counterproductive. But the open-source approach has a surprisingly decent track record when it comes to cybersecurity. When everyone can see the vulnerabilities, more people race to patch them than exploit them.<\/p>\n

Less convincing is Zuckerberg\u2019s suggestion that this could also work for bioterrorism. AI\u2019s demonstrated capacity to help people develop dangerous pathogens has been one of Anthropic\u2019s strongest arguments for restricting how people can use the most powerful models. Zuckerberg\u2019s half-hearted counterargument: Unleashing those models will \u201caccelerate society\u2019s ability to develop new cures and inoculate against new issues as they arise.\u201d That\u2019s quite a claim from a man who oversees one of the world\u2019s most prolific hotbeds of anti-vaccine conspiracism. Waving away the risks of a disruptive technology by insisting that they\u2019ll take care of themselves is a move we\u2019ve seen from Zuckerberg before, and history hasn\u2019t always borne it out.<\/p>\n

At a moment when the top AI labs are eager to help steer the country\u2019s response to fears of rogue AI, Zuckerberg is offering a reminder that their best interests might not be everyone else\u2019s. Of course, neither are his. He has a penchant for cloaking his vested interests in lofty, universalist rhetoric\u2014and then abandoning it when the winds shift. When Facebook was consolidating its hold on the information economy, he portrayed connecting people as an absolute good. When Americans soured on the platform, he pledged to crack down on fake news and touted new algorithms that would steer users toward \u201cmeaningful social interactions\u201d and \u201ctime well spent.\u201d The same day that Congress certified Joe Biden as the next president, Meta banned Donald Trump from its platforms. When Trump returned to power, Zuckerberg stood behind him on the inauguration dais and later blamed the Biden administration for pressuring him to act as the speech police. Now that he\u2019s an also-ran in the AI race, he\u2019s a man of the people. Watch what happens if he ever catches up.<\/p>\n

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