The rise of superintelligence—technology capable of surpassing human cognitive abilities—has fueled fears ranging from an elimination of human labor to more dystopian, Terminator-like visions of what happens when technology goes rogue. But now, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back against the predictions of a job apocalypse once made by his fellow tech CEOs, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
“I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity’s relevance would rush to build that future,” Zuckerberg wrote in an essay posted to Meta’s website Monday.
