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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized the centralization of AI development on Tuesday, arguing the future of the technology should not be controlled by a limited group of major players.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, the tech mogul focused on the prospect of superintelligence, or AI that can surpass human intelligence.
“The defining question of our age isn’t whether superintelligence will exist, but who will have access to it,” he wrote Tuesday. “Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone?”
Zuckerberg took thinly veiled swipes at key AI rivals, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, voicing surprise that those leading the development of the emerging technology have offered perspectives “so filled with doom.”
“I don’t understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity’s relevance would rush to build that future,” he said.
Both Amodei and Altman have expressed concerns about the potential for AI to eliminate jobs. The Anthropic CEO has warned of more drastic consequences, suggesting last year that the technology could wipe out large swaths of entry-level white-collar work.
The OpenAI CEO also warned about potential AI-related job losses, although he has since walked back some of his earlier predictions.
“The notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems dangerous,” Zuckerberg added. “Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened hasn’t led to safe or positive outcomes.”
The Meta CEO argued instead for personal superintelligence, a type of superintelligence that is available to everyone.
“Some argue that superintelligence itself, or a small set of experts who control it, should decide what is best for humanity. I disagree,” Zuckerberg said Tuesday. “The history of democracy and economics has shown that there is no single objective answer to how people define the best life, and therefore the best approach is letting people decide what matters to them.”
“Rather than centralizing this power, we believe that delivering personal superintelligence to everyone is the way to answer this question,” he continued.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has previously embraced this concept. Zuckerberg penned a letter last July describing his vision of personal superintelligence.
However, his op-ed comes at a crucial moment for the industry. The advent of new, open-source or open-weight models from China, like Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, has rocked the American AI sector, whose leading companies have largely favored closed models.
This has prompted concerns that other U.S. firms could increasingly turn to cheaper, open models from China.
As the White House has weighed how to deal with this latest development, several major AI firms urged the government last week not to overregulate open-weight models. Among the signatories of the letter were Meta, OpenAI and Nvidia.
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