Johns Hopkins University Professor Seth Lazar said Zuckerberg’s “overall vision is cool” and expressed optimism if Meta’s CEO’s manifesto serves as a “North Star” for the company’s SuperIntelligence Labs.
“If this constitutes a genuine North Star for MSL, then I am a bit more optimistic about the world we’re likely to build with powerful AI (conditional on getting there without everything blowing up along the way),” Lazar, who studies the moral and political philosophy of AI, wrote on X.
Lazar said he was “psyched” that Meta is releasing a model.
“Sometimes protecting individual rights means giving people an agent who will push on their behalf against rules and restrictions that are over-applied and unfairly demanding,” he said. “The frontier models are absolutely terrible at this, and our reliance on them portends an Internet that makes us much less free.”
Lazar said others in the AI community would likely find Zuckerberg’s vision for superintelligence disappointing. One area Lazar said is right to critique is that the Meta CEO sees compute as the main limitation to the use of AI models that exceed human intelligence. Lazar said it’s more likely that other limitations will be needed.
“Pretty likely that it’ll involve restrictions on some capabilities, and probably this means eg the personal health research scientist is not a plausible vision, or will need a lot more structure, anyway,” Lazar wrote.
