Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, Audio-Only Glasses and Killer AI

Meta has new audio-only Ray-Ban glasses, new VR glasses that no longer look like a nerd helmet and a new voice-and-video mode for its Muse AI agent. I sat down with Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s headquarters ahead of the company’s Connect conference to talk about all of it. And yes, we also get into the metaverse, privacy, “pervert glasses,” recording indicator lights—and whether AI is going to kill us. Thanks to Mercury for sponsoring this video. Head to https://mercury.com to find out more. Chapters: 00:00 Zuckerberg on AI slowdown and AI existential threat 04:53 Zuckerberg’s old Dell Inspiron and the future of computers 08:32 Meta VR Glasses 11:00 Holograms! 14:04 Meta Ray Ban Audio glasses 14:55 Hearing aid support 16:19 Mercury ad 17:19 Zuckerberg’s response to pervert glasses 20:11 A shift in privacy 24:23 Muse AI + new voice 26:23 Meeting Agrippa 29:02 Muse privacy and trusting Meta 33:15 AI + kids 35:33 Meta’s big future bet 📬 Our videos are free here, but support our work by subscribing to the New Things. You’ll love the newsletters! https://thenewthings.com/subscribe. 📙 Order Joanna’s new book at https://joannastern.com 💼 Want to sponsor our stuff? Email joanna.partnerships@smoothmedia.co ▶️ Subscribe here so you don’t miss future videos https://www.youtube.com/c/joannastern Who is Joanna Stern? Emmy winner. Pulitzer finalist. Professional asker of uncomfortable questions. New York Times bestselling author. Joanna spent 12 years at The Wall Street Journal making videos and writing columns before founding New Things. Before that, she helped start The Verge and worked at ABC News. She believes technology should work for humans—and that journalism should be fun. She is working on both. She also is the author of the book I AM NOT A ROBOT: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything. As NBC News' Chief Technology Analyst, her reporting and The New Things content regularly appears across NBC's broadcasts and platforms. For Joanna’s full resume, see LinkedIn. You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/joannastern Or on X here: https://x.com/JoannaStern Or on LinkedIn here: linkedin.com/in/joannastern