Zuckerberg lays out Meta's new vision for AI: Personal intelligence for all

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Set us as preferred Mark Zuckerberg wants AI for all, not just a few.In the last month, there has been heated debate in Silicon Valley and Washington over whether advanced artificial intelligence is too dangerous to be freely available as an open-source model for anyone to download and use, and whether its development should thus be locked down and tightly controlled by a handful of companies.In a sweeping 6,500-word manifesto published Monday, Zuckerberg declared that the biggest risk of AI is that if one government or a few companies amass too much control over the technology, democracy could be hurt.He outlined his vision to build “personal superintelligence,” where each user would have a personal AI agent on their device that understands their goals and bots would work on their behalf to improve their relationships, health, career, finances, hobbies and more.Alongside this vision document, Meta released an “open” version of its AI model called Muse Glimmer.What this means is that well-versed techies can now download and modify this AI without approval from Meta.

Businesses can tweak it to operate it entirely on their own devices and create AI assistants that manage schedules, draft messages and organize files.Zuckerberg’s hope is that these developers will use that freedom to develop user-friendly apps and businesses that will eventually usher in utopian AI tech to the average person.Closed AI models, such as those developed by rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, keep their code private and cannot be tweaked.“Rather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it,” Zuckerberg wrote.

“This has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment where individuals can use this powerful new capability to reach their full potential, pursue their...