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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

‘Very scary’: Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to build advanced AI alarms experts

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a conference
Building an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system and making it open source has been likened to ‘giving people a template to build a nuclear bomb’. Photograph: Godofredo A Vásquez/AP

Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of taking an irresponsible approach to artificial intelligence after committing to building a powerful AI system on a par with human levels of intelligence. The Facebook founder has also raised the prospect of making it freely available to the public.

The Meta chief executive has said the company will attempt to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system and make it open source, meaning it will be accessible to developers outside the company. The system should be made “as widely available as we responsibly can”, he added.

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