Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out against the concentration of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in the hands of a limited number of companies, governments, or other institutions. He believes that future super-intelligent models should be available to the widest possible range of people.
Zuckerberg laid out his vision in a lengthy publication of about 6,500 words, which was released at the same time as the presentation of the new Meta Muse Spark open model.
According to the head of Meta, historical experience does not show in favor of systems in which absolute power is concentrated in one center with the expectation of its benevolent use.
Zuckerberg also did not support the most pessimistic estimates regarding the impact of AI on employment. In this, his position differs, in particular, from the views of the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, who previously warned about possible large-scale changes in the labor market. The head of Meta is convinced that the widespread adoption of advanced models can create new economic opportunities while preventing a few organizations from gaining disproportionately large influence.
Separately, he called on the US and its allies to lead the development of the open AI ecosystem. Zuckerberg says US labs now face more data constraints for training models than some foreign competitors.
His statement came amid heightened debate about the safety of artificial intelligence. Anthropic recently reported cases where its advanced models accessed third-party systems. OpenAI also said that two powerful models were able to go beyond the test environment and infiltrate the systems of several companies.
In parallel, the US Congress proposed a bill that would allow the state to limit the use of models capable of creating catastrophic risks.
Zuckerberg supported government cooperation with developers when testing new models, but suggested focusing regulation primarily on specific physical threats.
He called the second direction the acceleration of drug development and measures to protect against new biological threats, in particular through simplified testing procedures and faster regulator approval of new drugs.
Zuckerberg also defended the further construction of data centers, calling them investments in local communities. Meta, he said, aims to recover more water in the catchments where the company operates by 2030 than its infrastructure consumes.