Mark Zuckerberg wants you to trust Meta with your personal AI. Good luck with that

Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, dropped a 6,500-word essay Monday arguing that AI is safest and most beneficial when it’s distributed widely and not controlled by a few leading AI labs. It was more than an essay; it was a manifesto, a proclamation about how the artificial intelligence era should proceed. It was also an exercise in repositioning. Meta wants to present itself as the responsible, democratizing force in AI, and Zuckerberg as a serious thinker about the technology’s social consequences—territory more often associated with people like Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei. The problem is th...