Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs and Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler

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Alex Kantrowitz

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology podcast for the latest of our first Monday of the month discussion about Big Tech strategy and AI. Today we cover Mark Zuckerberg's vision for personal superintelligence and whether it's more of a recruiting play or a real difference in the way the company builds AI. We also cover the massive bets on AI and whether they'll ever pay off, how interlinked big tech is with AI, and whether you should outsource your writing to AI. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Mark Zuckerberg wants to build personal super intelligence, but does the term have meaning beyond marketing hype?
0:06.3	We're seeing $100 million payouts and lots of layoffs in big tech. How does that work?
0:11.5	Plus, should you use AI to write? That's coming up right after this.
0:15.8	Welcome to Big Technology podcast, first Monday of the month edition where we talk about everything happening in big tech
0:21.8	and AI with the great m g Siegler of spyglass you could find his writing at spyglass got
0:27.2	org and we have so much to speak with you about today including what super intelligence
0:32.0	actually means whether people are actually worth a hundred million dollars as big tech companies
0:37.2	are laying folks off,
0:39.2	and of course, whether you should use artificial intelligence to write.
0:43.1	MG, it's great to have you back on the show.
0:44.9	Welcome back.
0:45.8	Thanks for having me, Alex, as always.
0:47.6	And yeah, there is so much going on right now.
0:49.5	So I'm excited to dive into it a bit.
0:51.4	Definitely.
0:52.1	All right.
0:52.5	So we're going to discuss the definition of
0:55.2	superintelligence on this show or the lack of definition of super intelligence on this show.
1:00.5	I think the first way for us to get into that is just looking at this document that Mark Zuckerberg
1:06.1	has laid out about personal super intelligence. So I'll just start off.
1:11.2	He says, over the last few months,
1:12.6	we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems
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