Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
马克·扎克伯格长篇人工智能宣言的四个要点
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence — his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter. The lengthy manifesto Zuckerberg published on Monday, titled “The Future is for Everyone,” broadly lays out his beliefs about how the technology should be developed, expanded, and regulated, and how Meta is positioning itself to enable those goals.
Meta 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）对他所设想的人类与人工智能共存的理想未来有很多话要说——他最近发表的一篇相关文章长达 6500 多字。扎克伯格周一发表的这份长篇宣言题为《未来属于每个人》（The Future is for Everyone），广泛阐述了他关于应如何开发、扩展和监管这项技术，以及 Meta 如何定位自己以实现这些目标的观点。
Some points echo a similar (albeit, much shorter) public letter that Zuckerberg put out last year, heralding the importance of public access to superintelligent AI — a term for artificial general intelligence (AGI) models capable of surpassing human intelligence, which AI companies are racing to develop. Both were published with similar intentions: to pitch the supposed personal, societal, and economic benefits of superintelligent AI, and to grandstand Meta as a responsible steward to deliver that future.
其中一些观点呼应了扎克伯格去年发表的一封类似（尽管短得多）的公开信，信中强调了公众获取“超级智能 AI”的重要性。超级智能 AI 是指能够超越人类智能的通用人工智能（AGI）模型，这也是目前各 AI 公司竞相开发的目标。这两篇文章发表的意图相似：旨在推销超级智能 AI 在个人、社会和经济层面的潜在益处，并将 Meta 标榜为实现这一未来的负责任的管理者。
Sway the public on data centers
争取公众对数据中心的支持
“Sustainable infrastructure development means that communities must benefit significantly from each project,” Zuckerberg said, detailing how Meta plans to resolve the ongoing PR crisis surrounding AI data center projects. This includes pledges to build energy-generating infrastructure “wherever we invest” that could potentially give low-cost energy back to the communities, and a commitment to “restore more water than we use in the watersheds where we operate by 2030.” Meta is also launching a Future Is For Everyone Fund to support local communities, and Zuckerberg says the company is providing free training and “guaranteed high-paying jobs” for skilled tradespeople in areas where Meta is building data centers.
“可持续的基础设施建设意味着社区必须从每个项目中获得显著利益，”扎克伯格在详细说明 Meta 计划如何解决围绕 AI 数据中心项目的持续公关危机时表示。这包括承诺“在我们投资的任何地方”建设能源基础设施，从而可能为社区提供低成本能源；并承诺“到 2030 年，在我们运营的流域内，恢复的水量要超过我们使用的水量”。Meta 还将设立“未来属于每个人基金”（Future Is For Everyone Fund）以支持当地社区。扎克伯格表示，公司正在为 Meta 建设数据中心地区的熟练技工提供免费培训和“有保障的高薪工作”。
Open AI for everyone
为每个人开放 AI
Meta is planning to focus its efforts on “delivering personal superintelligence to billions of people and small businesses,” arguing that doing so will empower everyone to become more entrepreneurial. Part of this involves offering the technology “for free or as affordably as possible,” and leaning into releasing more open source AI models that anyone can download. Doing so “will bring an abundance of personal agency, expression of ideas, deepening of relationships, economic and financial prosperity, improved health, and inventions we cannot imagine today,” according to Zuckerberg. He also says this will have an impact on “some aspects of the way we work,” but waves off concerns that AI will result in fewer jobs overall.
Meta 计划将其工作重点放在“为数十亿人和小企业提供个人超级智能”上，并认为这样做将使每个人都能更具创业精神。这部分涉及以“免费或尽可能负担得起”的方式提供该技术，并倾向于发布更多任何人都可以下载的开源 AI 模型。扎克伯格认为，这样做“将带来丰富的个人能动性、思想表达、关系的深化、经济和金融繁荣、健康的改善，以及我们今天无法想象的发明”。他还表示，这将对“我们工作方式的某些方面”产生影响，但他驳回了关于 AI 会导致整体就业岗位减少的担忧。
Less government oversight
减少政府监管
Zuckerberg voices the importance of the US leading the open source AI ecosystem, citing concerns that competing models released by foreign labs “hold several advantages” because they face fewer training data restrictions. He pitches that the US needs to rethink policies around distillation and data use, arguing that while “some have tried to frame distillation as harmful,” the US will not be able to keep up if it keeps restricting AI models from learning from other models.
扎克伯格表达了美国在开源 AI 生态系统中保持领先地位的重要性，并提到了一些担忧，即外国实验室发布的竞争模型“拥有多项优势”，因为它们面临的训练数据限制较少。他提出美国需要重新思考关于模型蒸馏和数据使用的政策，并辩称，虽然“有些人试图将蒸馏描述为有害的”，但如果美国继续限制 AI 模型从其他模型中学习，它将无法跟上步伐。
“I do not believe restricting access to foreign open source models is an effective solution,” said Zuckerberg. We should note here that these concerns are likely being voiced in response to the release of open-weight models from Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Moonshot, which isn’t the same thing as being open-source, and the models Meta has released so far aren’t truly open-source either. He also espouses that access to personal superintelligence is essential for individuals to maintain their freedom, and should only be subject to restrictions “when truly required.”
“我不认为限制获取外国开源模型是一个有效的解决方案，”扎克伯格说。我们在此应指出，这些担忧很可能是针对阿里巴巴和月之暗面（Moonshot）等中国 AI 公司发布的开放权重模型而提出的，这与开源并不完全相同，而且 Meta 迄今为止发布的模型也并非真正的开源。他还主张，获取个人超级智能对于个人维护自由至关重要，只有在“真正需要时”才应受到限制。
But also, more government oversight
但同时也需要更多政府监管
In cases where cybersecurity is involved, Zuckerberg proposes that frontier AI labs should work with the US government to help with bolstering critical infrastructure, and believes open-source AI models will improve system security over time — especially “once superintelligence enables most of the world’s code to be verifiably secure.” That plan includes pushing AI developers to share the training information of new models “for government use and review” intermediately instead of waiting until training has completed, which aligns with the Trump administration’s AI testing framework.
在涉及网络安全的情况下，扎克伯格建议前沿 AI 实验室应与美国政府合作，帮助加强关键基础设施。他相信开源 AI 模型随着时间的推移会提高系统安全性——特别是“一旦超级智能使世界上大部分代码能够被验证为安全时”。该计划包括推动 AI 开发人员在训练过程中“为政府使用和审查”分享新模型的训练信息，而不是等到训练完成后再分享，这与特朗普政府的 AI 测试框架相一致。
“This way the government will have early access to the most powerful models and an army of capable engineers to identify and patch security issues,” Zuckerberg said. “Labs should also work with law enforcement to help identify bad actors attempting to misuse their systems.”
“这样政府就能尽早接触到最强大的模型，并拥有一支由能干的工程师组成的队伍来识别和修补安全问题，”扎克伯格说。“实验室还应与执法部门合作，帮助识别试图滥用其系统的恶意行为者。”