
Meta Is Building a Superintelligence Lab. What Is That?

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, says the company will develop a Superintelligence Lab to create technology more powerful than today’s artificial intelligence. The announcement is raising questions about what superintelligence actually is and what its impacts could be on the high-tech industry and the world at large. Some say it could help overcome many societal challenges. Others express concern about harm it could do to humanity. Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, notes that scientists and engineers are not yet close to creating superintelligence and the term is — at least for now — more of a branding and advertising term.