Zuckerberg Knocks AI Development Centralization, Control
Roubini says machines could displace workers within 20 to 25 years, and he argues governments may need to share AI profits through cash payments.
- On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that artificial intelligence should be widely distributed to empower individuals, contrasting sharply with economist Nouriel Roubini's prediction that AI will necessitate universal basic income as robots replace a large share of the workforce.
- Roubini, nicknamed 'Dr Doom' for predicting the 2008 financial crash, forecasts that artificial intelligence and robots will replace a large share of the workforce within 20 to 25 years, forcing governments to eventually pay citizens a universal basic income.
- Unemployment in the UK stands at a five-year high, while Morgan Stanley research found British firms reported a net 8% fall in jobs over the past year as they adopted AI, the steepest drop among major economies.
- Countering displacement fears, Zuckerberg wrote that widely distributed superintelligence could prevent unemployment by making it 'significantly easier to start businesses without raising large amounts of capital,' potentially creating more jobs rather than fewer.
- Tesla's Elon Musk predicted that within two decades paid work will become optional as robots take over routine tasks, reflecting broader uncertainty about AI's economic impact. The debate centers on how to distribute wealth from future technological advancement.
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Mark Zuckerberg has entered full into one of the debates that will mark the coming years: who will control the most advanced artificial intelligences. Meta’s founder argues that these systems should not be locked into a few companies or institutions, but become tools available to anyone to learn, create and push forward their own ideas. His position is far more optimistic than that of other industry leaders. While part of the industry warns abou…
Zuckerberg knocks AI development centralization, control
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...
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The history of democracy and the economy has proved that centralized power undermines human potential, writes Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder, current Meta, in an editorial published in the Wall Street Journal, under the title "The Future AI is for everyone, which we continue to return.
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