Spoiler alert: There was no MMA bout, and Elon didn’t bounce the desk and assault Zuck, regardless of his repeated threats to show up at his home and problem him to mortal fight.

As a substitute, the 2 joined different business heavyweights, together with Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, and extra, to debate the potential for AI regulation, the present legal guidelines and potential blind spots, and what wants to vary in future, with a purpose to mitigate financial threat. Or worse: superintelligent robots that wish to use us as batteries.

Zuckerberg revealed his ready remarks on the Meta weblog forward of time, wherein he outlined his two foremost considerations at current: security and entry.

On the security entrance, Zuckerberg famous that Meta’s already working with varied lecturers to ascertain guidelines and parameters round secure AI use, whereas it’s additionally seeking to construct in additional protections for artists and others who could possibly be impacted by generative AI growth.

As per Zuckerberg:

“We predict policymakers, lecturers, civil society and business ought to all work collectively to attenuate the potential dangers of this new expertise, but in addition to maximise the potential advantages. If you happen to imagine this era of AI instruments is a significant step ahead, then it’s essential to not undervalue the potential upside.”

By way of entry, Zuckerberg rightly notes that, in future, entry to AI may change into a differentiating issue, which is why it’s essential to facilitate entry, the place potential, to democratize alternative.

Following the closed-door assembly, Musk famous the necessity for extra AI regulation with a purpose to be certain that corporations “take actions which are secure, and within the basic curiosity of the general public.”

The group additionally mentioned the rise of deepfakes, and easy methods to tackle misinformation powered by AI instruments, and sure, in addition they touched on the dangers of making a superintelligence, which may supersede people and spark a robotic apocalypse.

That also appears pretty sci-fi, however it’s one other concern to consider, as they appear to ascertain guidelines round accountable AI growth.  

Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer got here away from the assembly vowing to kind a basis for bipartisan AI coverage, which shall be thought-about by Congress in future.

It’s an essential space of focus, and with Meta seeking to develop its personal, extra superior AI mannequin, whereas Musk additionally invests in the identical, now could be the time to ascertain clearer AI laws, earlier than the following stage of the evolving AI arms race.

And it’ll certainly be an arms race. The price of creating AI programs is getting steeping by the day, as entry to the required {hardware} turns into extra restrictive. That implies that the richest companies will be capable to put money into such over all others, which additionally implies that the large gamers would be the solely ones which are actually capable of compete within the AI growth stakes.

Left unchecked, this might give Meta, Microsoft, Google, and others considerably extra market energy, to the purpose that they might properly maintain the fates of varied industries of their arms. We’re already coping with the impacts of market monopolies in a number of key technological areas, which is why laws should be established now, on the foundational stage, to mitigate impacts in future.

It’s tough to see such coming about rapidly, or simply, however already, some tech corporations have signed on to numerous AI growth agreements.

U.S. Senators will now must debate the following steps, as they appear to kind the bottom guidelines for the AI shift.