Not too long ago, Mark Zuckerberg was trying to get everyone to live, work, and socialize in his metaverse. With that $70 billion fever dream fizzling into ghost towns and laggy avatars, he’s come up with another obsession: AI superintelligence.
While this might seem like another stroke of innovative genius from Meta, the true picture is all about domination. This idea is more invasive, with the goal to get AI to think, speak, and maybe replace you.
Meta Wants Your Mind
According to Zuckerberg, this new initiative, Meta Superintelligence Labs, will provide superintelligence for everyone. The reality is that a billion personalized algorithms wired into your routines, habits, and even your relationships will feed one massive machine with large amounts of behavioral data.
After the failure of Metaverse to get you to attend concerts in Tokyo and play poker on Mars from your couch, Meta wants you to buy companionship with AI avatars that are trained to mimic your partners and friends.
Zuckerberg claims that most people only have three friends; we wonder where he got such data from. But because of this assumption, he believes AI can provide people with more friends to fill the gap. Such an assumption is nothing but social engineering by design.
One Digital Brain to Rule Them All
Meta’s AI superintelligence is being designed to replace human roles everywhere. Zuckerberg talked about how he envisions AI coders, AI coworkers, AI therapists, and more. Practically, human jobs will become extinct, and relationships will be simulated.
While you might think the idea is too much of a stretch, you only need to look at how Meta engineers currently work. These professionals already use Llama models to automate tasks that humans used to do.
Yet, Zuckerberg wants to take it further to the point where superhuman tools can create whatever you want. But here’s a question: what happens when those tools are the creators, thinkers, and decision-makers?
This radical change won’t affect the professional space alone. Now, Meta’s smart glasses and always-on AI chatbots are already training people to prefer machines over human contact. Contrary to Zuckerberg’s often-repeated slogan, this process isn’t about bringing and connecting people; it’s simply conditioning.