Zuckerberg says AI superintelligence is 'in sight,' touts 'new era of personal empowerment'

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that the creation of superintelligent artificial intelligence is “now in sight” and that it will herald a “new era of personal empowerment.”

Zuckerberg said that Meta’s approach will be “different from others in the industry” because it will focus on developing AI superintelligence to benefit people’s personal life, rather than directing AI to automate work — a rising concern as more and more companies move to replace entry-level roles with AI.

“AI keeps accelerating, and over the past few months, we’ve begun to see glimpses of AI systems improving themselves,” Zuckerberg said in a video posted on Facebook. “So developing superintelligence is now in sight, but there’s this big open question about what we should direct superintelligence towards.”

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