‘Call us whatever the hell you want’: Mark Zuckerberg just launched an AI optimism blitz using nostalgia to sell Meta’s AI future amid backlash

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In a week where an AI model went rogue and broke out of a secure test environment—and in a year where seemingly all we’re hearing is how AI can displace large swaths of the workforce—it may come as a surprise when one of the tech’s most prominent voices is pushing an optimistic view of the tech, joining the many in his field who have recently walked back comments of how it could negatively impact workers.

“As we enter this next wave with AI, we continue to believe the future is for everyone,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote as the caption to a short video on Thursday, harkening back to the company’s early years of tech optimism. 

“Call us optimists, call us dreamers, call us whatever the hell you want, but we’re betting on people, and we like those odds,” the voiceover in the video said.

The video featured montages of people usi...

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