The Digital Press

Meta claims that superintelligence will bring abundance and free humans to engage in creativity and connection rather than productivity tasks, but skepticism remains about these promises given economic realities and past tech failures.

Why it matters: Meta’s vision impacts how AI might reshape labor, productivity, and economic inequality globally.

The stakes: Critics fear superintelligence will replace jobs, deepen scarcity for workers, and primarily benefit corporate profits.

The other side: Meta positions superintelligence as personal and empowering, unlike centralized automation models leading to universal basic income.

Commenters say: Many doubt Meta’s optimistic vision, citing past missteps like the metaverse and layoffs, warning of dystopian, exploitative corporate use.