People

Mark Zuckerberg

Meta

Capability 5Outlook 4

Tracked since Week 36, last spoke Sept 29.

Where they stand

Against all 17 people scored in Week 40. Bars count people at each score; black is Zuckerberg, the dashed line is the average.

What they've said

• Week 40Sept 28 to Oct 4

  Signed the accord and called it a starting point for industry-wide standards.

  Zuckerberg signed on September 29. The Korea Times reports he said the accord is meant to show AI works in the way that we intend and called it a starting point for industry-wide standards. That is a customer-assurance framing more than a risk framing. Scores hold.

  Sources

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  • Trump touts AI boss pledge to self-regulateThe Korea Times, Sept 30
  • Trump touts AI executives' accord as a "constitution" for the industryCBS News, Sept 29
• Week 39Sept 21 to Sept 27

  Pitched Muse at Meta Connect as the personal superintelligence billions will use. Two quotes that would have raised his outlook failed verification.

  At Meta Connect on September 23 he put Muse at the centre: In the coming years, I expect that Muse is going to grow into the personal superintelligence that billions of people around the world are going to use. He used superintelligence throughout in place of AI, treated safety purely as product architecture, and did not mention Llama once at Meta's flagship event.

  His score did not move, and it would have if two quotes had held up. A widely recirculated interview had him rejecting industry-wide coordination and calling the future very positive for everyone, which would have taken outlook to 5. The quotes could not be verified, the attributed outlet and byline do not match, and the language looks like a compression of his September 16 remarks, which fall outside this window. Held at 4.

  Sources

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  • Zuckerberg predicts Muse will become a personal superintelligence for billionsAxios, Sept 23
  • Meta Connect 2026: a lot of musing mixed with some deceptionAbove Avalon, Sept 25