Facebook chief Zuckerberg is too busy working on AI amid Elon Musk-backed open letter calls on AI labs to pause research

Image credit : Linkedln According to the chief technical officer of Meta, the company's executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, spend the majority of their time focusing on artificial intelligence research. "We just created a new team, the generative AI team, a couple of months ago; they are very busy. It's probably the area that I'm spending the most time [in], as well as Mark Zuckerberg and [Chief Product Officer] Chris Cox," Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told outlet Nikkei Asia. In February, Meta revealed that it was creating a new team focused on generative AI. Bosworth noted that the company had been researching such technology since 2013. "We've been investing in artificial intelligence for over a decade, and have one of the leading research institutes in the world," Bosworth told the outlet Wednesday in Tokyo. "We certainly have a large research organization, hundreds of people." Bosworth's AI remarks follow an open letter issued last week by nonprofit Future of Life, which was signed by thousands of tech leaders and specialists and urged for a minimum six-month moratorium in AI development. The open letter demanded that AI research facilities and decision-makers take advantage of a six-month break to "create and apply a set of shared safety guidelines for advanced AI design," arguing that "human-competitive intelligence can pose serious hazards to society and mankind." When asked about the Future of Life letter’s request for a pause, Bosworth said, "No," according to Nikkei. [caption id="attachment_143056" align="aligncenter" width="1245"] Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer of Meta Platforms Inc (Image credit : Protocol.com)[/caption]