MARK ZUCKERBERG
AI ETHICS AND REGULATION
MARK ZUCKERBERG
TITLE: CEO COMPANY: META INDUSTRY: SOCIAL MEDIA
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’ s CEO, champions AI, AI infrastructure and AI superintelligence – aiming to transform social media, virtual reality and user engagement worldwide.
Yet when announcing Meta’ s development with superintelligence, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says:“ Meta’ s vision is to bring personal superintelligence to everyone.
“ We believe in putting this power in people’ s hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.
“ An even more meaningful impact on our lives will likely come from everyone having a personal superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals, create what you want to see in the world.”
However, this rhetoric masks thornier questions about whose values get encoded when Meta decides what constitutes bias worth removing.
“ It’ s a pretty blatant ideological play to effectively make overtures to the Trump administration,” says Alex Hanna, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. This means that the claim that leading AI models lean left is contested.
Research from the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and Xi’ an Jiaotong University in 2023 finds that Llama already gave the most right-wing authoritarian answers to prompts, while ChatGPT gave the most left-leaning responses.
Why Apple’ s CEO fears humans thinking like computers Tim Cook’ s concerns about AI show deeper anxiety about technology’ s
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