What Is a “Personal Superintelligence?”
Today, we’re talking about “clankers.” Yes, it’s another article about AI. But not just artificial intelligence as we’ve come to know it in 2025; this is the future of artificial intelligence.
On July 30, 2025, our good friend, Mark of Meta, introduced us to his vision of “Personal Superintelligence.”
But what is a superintelligent AI?
Imagination can conjure up a machine that is everywhere at once with access to all knowledge and/or customized for us, the consumer. We’ve seen the idea of a supercomputer and a robotic personal assistant in A LOT of pop culture, including I, Robot, The Matrix, WarGames, Bicentennial Man, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Her, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Chappie, and The Terminator.
According to Hollywood, there are plenty of reasons NOT to want this, but I digress…
Now, after reading Zuck’s vision, some people might think, Why is a superintelligence that works for me and can’t kill me a bad thing?
My argument is that Meta’s vast resources should be put to better use.
“Pursuits We Choose”
Zuck says that this “new era for humanity” will be one where we “focus less on subsistence” and “more on pursuits we choose.”
Subsistence, for example, is the backbreaking manual labor of the farm, plied by millions of our ancestors. Also, whether the “pursuits we choose” are worth pursuing or good for us, Mark doesn’t say.
Maybe Mark neglected to commend the hard work and craftsmanship of our ancestors. Maybe not. But in my opinion, he believes that most work, however legitimate, is “beneath” us.
I believe in the dignity of work. Honest labor that contributes to a person’s holistic development and contributes to the common good of society can be done in the field or in the office.
AI has already caused cataclysmic shifts in economies and job markets. “Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs, resulting in unemployment rates of 10 percent to 20 percent within five years.”
Amazon is making changes. The International Monetary Fund predicts AI will cause a “painful transition” for people, especially impacting elderly workers and those in manual labor industries. Forbes headlined that as many as 92 million jobs could be lost in five years!
We’re talking about moms, dads, sisters, sons, uncles, and grandparents. The toll will be great.
We might be kidding ourselves that as AI changes everything, there will still be plenty of jobs for humans.
I think Zuck’s goal is not only for people to need to work less, but to not need work at all, so that we can devote our lives to the “pursuits we choose.” “Subsistence” may come to mean anything: farmers, firefighters, grocers, mechanics, even artists, lawyers, politicians, and God forbid, parents.
Superintelligence will do it all for us while we, I don’t know, shoot the breeze? Ever seen WALL-E?
Saying, It’ll never happen, remains a weak argument for me. Too many “far-fetched” things that would never happen, have already happened.
Is Technology Our Savior?
Mark says advances in technology have “freed much of humanity.”
I don’t think it’s far-fetched to say that the head of Meta believes our technologically impoverished forefathers would have absolutely lived more fulfilling lives if they had had access to a personal superintelligence.
They would have quickly abandoned their plows, crops, and cattle, and settled in for deep conversations with Big Sis Billie, or whatever AI bot lay on the other side of a Quest headset. AI is even representing lost loved ones.
Advances in technology have improved our lives, no doubt. I’m using a computer, a keyboard, a mouse, electricity, satellites, the internet, and even AI to write this. I’m not anti-tech!
But freedom implies there’s an opposite—a lack of freedom, or enslavement. What has technology “freed” us from? If anything, technology has enslaved us.
Partial blame, at least, for the unprecedented levels of depression and anxiety, suicide, addiction, low self-esteem, bullying, etc., must be laid at the feet of technology.
The “Godfather of AI,” Geoffrey Hinton has warned us about the tech he pioneered. Much like us humans, AI will want to survive or to control. It “will very quickly develop two subgoals, if they’re smart: One is to stay alive… (and) the other subgoal is to get more control.”
He is increasingly critical of tech companies who underestimate the fire they play with. One interesting solution he proposes is to code maternal instincts into AI. After all, a mom is more intelligent than her baby but also serves it.
No, technology hasn’t freed us.
It’s All About Me and What I Want!
The heart of Zuck’s statement is where the truly shocking parts lie.
An “even more meaningful impact on our lives will likely come from everyone having a personal superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals, create what you want to see in the world, experience any adventure, be a better friend to those you care about, and grow to become the person you aspire to be.”
“We believe in putting this power in people’s hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.”
Again, in Mark’s mind, what’s important comes down to the individual’s personal worldview and desires. This flowery gag-reflex language is so vague and so aspirational at the same time.
What do you value? Whatever it is, you should have the power to realize it. Whatever it is.
“Personal superintelligence that knows us deeply, understands our goals, and can help us achieve them will be by far the most useful.”
“At Meta, we believe that people pursuing their individual aspirations is how we have always made progress expanding prosperity, science, health, and culture.”
What does this actually look like? Let’s set aside things like Star Trek, Rainbows End, Neuromancer, Robopocalypse, Machinehood, Person of Interest, and Doctor Who for a moment.
Is it a robot? A chatbot? A supercomputer? Me fusing with the motherboard?! Okay, honestly, I can’t set aside the TV shows while I’m doing this.
I think that “progress,” for a lot of our culture, is synonymous with happiness. Progress is the pursuit of happiness.
Point being, this machine will make us happy. Period.
Here’s the lesson: We cannot be happy without God! Even if we have the most amazing assistant, confidant, super-processing android by our side. The void will not be filled. No pursuit will satisfy. I can reach the stars, I can live my dreams, I can have it all, but…
“Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” — St. Augustine
What Is Zuckerberg’s Motive?
“We have the resources and the expertise to build the massive infrastructure required, and the capability and will to deliver new technology to billions of people across our products.”
For Zuck and Co., this is not just about happiness. It’s about profit. After all, money is the surest means to happiness for countless souls.
So, if you convince a person they can be happy without God, you can sell them anything.
And Meta is serious! Zuck says his efforts are about human connection, yet he is throwing billions of dollars into diluting and even replacing those relationships with the “superintelligent” hookup between flesh and hardware.
Isn’t it true that we don’t learn from the last romantic relationship and ignore the red flags of the next? With all the red flags and movies and horror stories of AI taking over, turning us to ash, or enslaving us, you’d think we’d stop. But no, we press on.
I can’t judge Mark’s heart. He believes what he’s doing is right. But I can see G.K. Chesterton marching into Silicon Valley wielding his famous line, “When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing, but worships everything.”
The Real Superintelligence
I’m not a conspiracy buff or stubbornly anti-AI. I’m mostly quoting other people.
Disguised in “empowerment” and “progress” is a worship of ourselves and what we create and control. Ironically, we may lose not only control, but ourselves.
Pope Leo XIV said, “access to data—however extensive—must not be confused with intelligence, which necessarily involves the person’s openness to the ultimate questions of life and reflects an orientation toward the True and the Good.”
Since Meta won’t promote the true, the good, and the beautiful, it’s up to us! Like this…
“Advances in technology Christ has freed humanity.”
“Superintelligence Christ will help humanity accelerate our pace of progress.”
An “even more meaningful impact on our lives will likely come from everyone having a personal superintelligence Christ, who helps you achieve your goals, create what you want to see in the world, experience any adventure, be a better friend to those you care about, and grow to become the person you aspire to be.”
Our “vision is to bring personal superintelligence Christ to everyone.”
Let’s make this our statement. A statement of faith in the real and Eternal Superintelligence.
Where do you see AI helping, distracting, and harming? What do you think of Zuckerberg’s vision and definition of personal superintelligence? Join the conversation! Shoot us an email at info@yellowlinedigital.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
