Superpowers, Not Superintelligence

←News Mark Zuckerberg is right about the important parts in “The Future is for Everyone”. Right that the defining question is who gets access to superintelligence and what we point it at. Right that concentrating it in a few institutions would be a catastrophe. Right that there’s no objective answer to what a good life looks like, and people should decide that for themselves. He’s also right about the mechanism. Power checks power. The safest arrangement is one where nobody accumulates enough of it to stop being checked. He applies the balance-of-power test to companies, to countries, to labs, to AI. He applies it to model access and to governance. He never once applies it to data acquisition. The incentives we set now are the ones we live with for the next 20 years. We wrote a contract like this before for the internet, pioneered by companies like Meta. Free products in exchange for data collection, surveillance, and ads. It looked like a good deal. In the AI era, the power sits in the input layer. The input has to come from you and be owned by you. I should declare my own interest. I’m building in this new direction. This essay is about a new path forward. Not why you shouldn’t trust anyone. What becomes possible when we put humans first ahead of machines. Look at Meta’s Actions Zuckerberg promises an agent that understands you, your goals, everything you care about. Look at how it learns. It monitors his sleep. It watches him train. It flags what it thinks he’ll find inter…