India, Aug. 26 -- Imagine having an Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent that understands what you want, works continuously on your behalf, helps manage your finances and health, teaches you new skills, and gives you capabilities once available only to large organisations. Now imagine billions having one. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Co-founder and CEO of Meta believes such distribution of intelligence could prevent governments, corporations, or a handful of institutions from becoming too powerful.

It is an appealing proposition. But there is an interesting caveat in his essay The Future is for Everyone. While arguing that superintelligence should be distributed rather than concentrated, the Meta founder also makes an unequivocal case for Ameri...