In its latest manifesto, “The Future is for Everyone,” Meta paints a dazzling picture of the next decade: a world where superintelligence is democratized, eight-year-olds code complex software, and personal AI tutors cure societal inequality.
The essay aggressively positions Meta not as a tech monolith, but as a digital Robin Hood, wresting control of AI from elite institutions and placing it directly into the hands of the people
But beneath the populist rhetoric and promises of “individual empowerment,” the essay reveals a deeply flawed, self-serving corporate strategy. Meta is selling a utopian future, but a closer read shows they are simply building a new kingdom where they own all the roads. I’d start with the question: When has Mark Zuckerberg willingly done anything that benefitted humanity at a cost to himself?
Just this weekend he came under fire as his private yacht ignored a call for help from a skiff that ran out of gas. He has also repeatedly failed on privacy and manipulation. You only have to look back to January of this year when a dataset containing the personal information of 17.5 million Instagram users surfaced on a dark web marketplace after it was scraped via an insecure API endpoint.