Mark Zuckerberg publishes 6,500-word AI vision essay
Banger after banger after banger in Zuckerberg’s delusional AI fever dream essay www.404media.co/mark-zuckerb...
Jason Koebler268“Humanity is not a monoculture” and other great points
Boxo McFoxo143"Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy[...]" Yes, I definitely do not enjoy my relationships or my hobbies and wish to offload these to my agent, sign me up.
SpryOldLorax129Is there a single billionaire that isn't completely mentally deranged?
Saraghargh91The billionaire class is sooo close to the final stages of catastrophic delusion, we just need a hero who can sell them on "uploading" their consciousnesses to a higher realm (which would not exist obvs), which they'd take gladly as the planet burns. Then poof they're gone, we rebuild without them.
Dr. Jen Gunter54His 8 year old is using AI to code? Doesn’t that mean that she isn’t actually learning it.
Solilequn36He has exactly the type of face that is missing a frying pan
Ernest Luckman205Starting to think it was a bad idea to give the keys to the world to guys who only read the spark notes of Business Secrets of the Pharaohs
Elizabeth Picciuto66Don’t want to brag but my brain does most of this work for me already.
neuse river hag9He's insane obviously but i wish there were more novels about it
WingsNDNSilver6Nah, I ain't reading that He didn't write it, either
Grumpy Philosopher6This essay is wild. It becomes awful incredibly quickly: ‘We propose a philosophy based on individual empowerment as the source of prosperity, invention as the primary purpose of superintelligence, and balance of power as the foundation of safety.”…
anissa6I just want to recommend to everyone who may not yet have read it, Naomi Alderman's novel, The Future. #booksky
Rockom Sockom NoBots4Nobody cares, Mark. Now... about the Diet Peach Snapple in the microkitchens...
Lynx 3D4I can't believe I'm already missing the time when the evil billionaires were at least sane enough not to act like they're gods
Doug Savage, Science Court Attorney4The guy who ran the site ranking girls by hotness is stupid as fuck? Who would have thought?
TheCatMan4"Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel near Alaska...a deranged, 6,500 word essay detailing his vision for AI superintelligence, a future that is 'for everyone' but which sounds less social than ever."
Went to parent-teacher night at my kid's middle school this evening and got told that the district is now moving away from technology in the classroom and going back to pen and paper. I love that this excellent news of rebellion came on the same day as Zuckerberg's AI supremacist screed.
Larseny29Yeah, cause Zuck has impeccable judgement about technology trends. Metaverse loses are now, what, 85 billion?
Magenta Rocks20Screed. Great word. Wish the media would stop using 'essay'.
Canned-azîr16I can't imagine a universe in which I would wade through 6k words that were, I assume, extrapolated from a 15 word prompt.
TinkTonkWolicyPonk she/they14"He does not consider that, even if everyone were to have an AI agent, perhaps not everyone would use these AI agents for good." As if this is hypothetical...
warainmaker.bsky.social8Another example of the Hubris Effect. People who acquire fame, wealth and power began to change personally and start conflating their opinions with objective reality. Zuck, Musk, Trump, Bezos. They all want to tell the little guy what to do and think. Brandon, more power to your school district.
Gizmoz4Isn't he the same guy who figured everybody would be living in his Metaverse or something like that? Spent billions, renamed his company. I know. Meta what? Oh well. Real Visionary isn't he...
Rebecca Solnit818Looking forward to a big piece rounding up all the ways people are starting to reject technology and step back into the analog world.
Greg Jericho45"My daughter loves to bake so my agent plans personalized recipes for us to make together each weekend, orders the ingredients, and then offers suggestions as we’re baking." JFC
Lauren McKenzie14Every student should be hand-writing assignments. The whole thing is learning how to learn, and it’s incredibly depressing to see the younger gens not having this experience. Being given the answer immediately without thinking it though themselves is hurting them badly.
Craig Johnson13i will be using in person, pen and paper evaluation for the rest of my time as a teacher
Stephanie4Do not love that my kids, ages 22 and 24, were guinea pigs, tbh.
Mark Hill3Very funny that Zuckerberg of all people thinks the modern internet user is conditioned and willing to read a 6,500 word essay
Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷3When you defund studying philosophy, this is what happens.
Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her)2This whole thing has "dude who didn't do the reading but talked all class anyway" vibes.
I am coming to believe we need a better quality of AI booster www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Elizabeth Lopatto47previously in AI weirdos www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...
observerbs.bsky.social5Great piece. And yeah...the molten core of any art experience for me, great, good, ok, bad, any form, is that an imperfect human being (or beings) put in the effort to create/perform it.
Wintersong3I absolutely loved this piece. This is one of those essays that makes me feel positive about being a subscriber to @theverge.com
Erin Wattershow52This is very good. I have yet to see a use-case that actually improves my life; they mostly just reduce the friction that lets you know you’re alive
Henry Farrell26the two opening paragraphs of this are great.
metal dot txt10I’ve read a lot of Liz stories and this is one of my absolute favorites, must read imo
Nathan Edwards9"Perhaps an AI agent might be better at predicting what my father will want for his birthday than I am, but it definitionally cannot give him my time and consideration. Love is not just a feeling; it is a way of paying attention."
Benjamin Riley6“Let’s move on to the next absurd idea: Everyone gets a ‘personalized tutor and coach with a PhD in every subject.’ Again, pretend that is possible. We already tried computerized learning in 2020, and if I recall correctly, it was a spectacular failure. People don’t like it. Kids don’t like it.”
rantmo (he/him)5"Love is not just a feeling; it is a way of paying attention" Really interesting article all around but that phrase is going to stick with me.
Sarah Enni5Everything about Zuck makes more sense if you accept my head canon: he is deeply, irrevocably uncomfortable with having a human body. Corporeal existence is a burden to him
Andrew [Hedonism Arc]4I understand why there's a reluctance to embrace outright bullying of people, but we are past the fucking Rubicon. It's morally beneficial for them and for society to start calling this loser shit out loud to their face.
James Morton2We had a prime minister who did not know how contactless payments worked. Could not order a big mac, couldn't figure out how petrol pumps worked and once told a homeless man how to get into finance. Zuckerberg is the same. So utterly disconnected from the real world and peoples lives.
dkhunter2We absolutely do tbh Just not sure the contemporary incentives could ever allow for it
Zuckerberg, whose yacht apparently spent the weekend missing a distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel, posted a deranged, 6500 word essay detailing his vision for AI superintelligence, a future that is “for everyone” but which sounds less social than ever www.404media.co/mark-zuckerb...
Magenta Rocks19Manifesto. Why is no one calling it a manifesto? Please stop normalizing this psycho.
C.V. Danes7A reminder for what the tech cultist billionaires actually envision when they share their manifestos about a world of abundance: bsky.app/profile/cv-d...
IdiocracyIsTrue5But Zuck did "like" the distress call.
A.M. Kusick1And he can shove those Meta glasses, too.
Spacely Sprockets🇺🇦1His idea of the future is more dystopian than WALL-E.
clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦1Sicko weirdo. All his stuff is garbage that has hurt the most vulnerable. He should forever live in his bunker in Hawaii.
Jack Murphy176It really is an indictment of society itself that we give these weirdos the power to chart our future.
Grand Theft Bottom16Oh yeah, it would be so crazy if any individual had the means and resources to bully their way through the legal system. Good thing that doesn't happen now.
Zoomer Antimillenarian10The essay is full of dumb brainworms but the fact that he's arguing for AI accessible to everyone is situationally quite useful. Although how helpful he'll be putting anything into practice is...well, I'm not optimistic. Dude has definitely cooked himself with sloppy misuse of AI.
Jesse Harris7We keep forgetting that this guy started Facebook as a way to creep on young women at his college. We've known what he is for decades.
Signe Johansen7Tech broligarchs becoming more and more desperate, you’d think they had better things to do while on vacation 🛥️
TantalumHypercube: Edge Marquis. Crown of pronouns.5zuk paid nazis and spied on indigenous hawaiians to "buy" land from...
Gregg Levine4Having been deemed unfuckable by humans in college, billionaire works tirelessly for the rest of his life to build a future where he can fuck any robot he wants.
Scott Rose42022: “I strongly believe that an open, interoperable metaverse built by many different developers and companies is going to be better for everyone”
Hugh Cayless2I think my favorite thing about MZ is that when I went to college, back in the Stone Age, the incoming student book you could submit your picture and bio for was called the Face Book. In case you thought he’s ever had an original idea at all.
Hellishchildren2July 3, 2025 Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth, Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar, OpenAI Head of Product Kevin Weil, and Thinking Machines Lab advisor Bob McGrew are now lieutenant colonels in the U.S. Army Reserves, as of June 13, 2025.
The point of Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word essay is to define a positive future for AI. Zuckerberg uses an example that is telling, in a grim kind of way: He asked an AI to pick out a “personalized” recipe to bake with his daughter. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: buff.ly/QouZnFZ
Heinrich der Landvoigt20When your only two things you learned in life is accumulating money and being greedy- you have to ask an AI to deal with your daughter. What a poor little man.
overthoughtamus.bsky.social14Soooo . . . move fast and bake things?
tofu-4-u.bsky.social13The Ai promise went from curing cancer to … you will have no job and be given a recipe that is likely filled with incorrect measurements
A Vanished Ghost 🇨🇦8A 6,500-word essay?! I knew Mark Zuckerberg was nuts but holy shit that’s crap ton. He must be really obsessed about ai (that or he’s really trying to justify/sell his Meta ai to people with a goddamn 6,500-word essay)
MN Guy5What are the odds he used AI to write it?
Don't Negotiate With Insurrectionists 3"Hey Meta Ai, create a cake recipe that a child who is female and connected to me by DNA would understand to be something to be enjoyed and provide a pleasant experience".
Between the FB Bond villain’s essay on the future of AI and the OpenAI piece on task crossover (linked below), it’s clear they see deprofessionalization as a good thing. Of course they do: devalue knowledge and labor, then profit. Superyachts don’t pay for themselves. about.fb.com/news/2026/08...
Roopika Risam9The OpenAI task crossover analysis openai.com/index/how-ai...
hiksmash5Could a bespoke Ai agent optimized to a single person's needs do this: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Yuliya Komska1This sounds like the ur-Californian get-rich-quick-but-nurse-a-giant-chip-on-the-shoulder mentality
Roopika Risam10I can’t stop thinking about how technocrats have such a cynical, eugenicist view of humanity: we’re a problem of signal to noise, don’t have inherent worth, and a better future means stripping away the particularities of human beings in favor of probabilistic models as if specificity is a problem.
Margot Finn6'We propose a philosophy based on individual empowerment as the source of prosperity, invention as the primary purpose of superintelligence, and balance of power as the foundation of safety.' Noted philanthropist, philosopher, yachtsman and egalitarian Mark Zuckerberg looks to "everyone's" future.
Norcross3i think that this hits on a big reason why i’m so tired of what we’re calling AI and simply won’t use it: they just wanna make me purchase the knowledge instead of actually learn it so i am always dependent on them to think.
Zuckerberg claims that an AI assistant orders baking supplies for him and his kid. Ok. Note he doesn't say it orders all the groceries, just the superfluous ones. And how much time do you think his human assistants spend fixing the mistakes his AI ones make? I'm guessing it's not inconsiderable.
Mary Gillis59I'm sure AI agents seem like magic to people who also have human assistants and endless money because everything gets done in the end no matter what. They can attribute all of that to their digital slaves and never have to deal with how much the AI agents fuck up.
LettuceHater1Is there some kind of cocaine shortage or something? These guys need something different.
I don’t assume Zuck is sincere. However, this is the promise I want companies to compete on. Sharing knowledge—selfishly, purely for the sake of good PR—has a better track record than protecting people from dangerous knowledge in a noble and heartfelt way.
Ted Underwood17I don't trust corporations or governments to keep knowledge and use it for our best interests, but — to be honest — don't trust professional organizations much more. If the AMA or ABA start saying that it's risky to let people get advice outside the guild, they'll also deserve a raised eyebrow imo.
Ash10Unfortunately he's very much not sincere, thankfully I didn't expect anything else from him so I'm neither surprised nor disappointed
Patrick Ohlson2UBI, Housing, Healthcare and AI for all And remove religion from state
John Gallagher2“My daughter loves to bake so my agent plans personalized recipes for us to make together each weekend, orders the ingredients, and then offers suggestions as we’re baking.” ordering the ingredients, at a store, figuring out the recipe, and making mistakes is all part of the this. He doesn’t get it
Stephen Ramsay1This is not PR. This is a strategy similar to the open-sourcing of Netscape back in the day. You're not in first (or second, or third), so make it free, poison your competitor's margins, and alter the ecosystem in your favor. Oh, and make it seem like you're making some kind ethical stand.
The chicken lady1Zuckerberg belongs in prison. No one cares about his blathering.
In a broad sense, it's true that AI has the capacity to bring enormous tangible good to the world—and much more importantly in a shockingly democratizing way. But men like Zuckerberg sell us on an outcome without seeming to give many sh*ts about means. That in a nutshell is what makes him dangerous.
Seth Abramson42Unfortunately it's difficult to have these urgently necessary conversations about AI because radicals invariably elbow their way in and center themselves, whether it's truly dangerous technocrats like Zuckerberg or willfully ignorant refuseniks who exhibit no evidence of knowing *anything* about AI.
Tom Hammel4Just like he doesn't give a shit about the mental health crisis in young people which he has deliberately and knowingly caused with his social media empire.If he's going to have a heavy hand in AI, (we know he will),I don't want anything to do with it. The benefits will be outweighed by the misery.
I think that there is a potentially very strong normative case for the liberatory potential of AI enabled abundance: but while I technically can think of people who are less of a credible messenger for that than Mark Zuckerberg, there's like maybe like ten of them
William B. Fuckley40literally one of the main reasons to be worried about AI is how it interacts with modern social media, the current state of which he arguably is more responsible for than any one other person currently alive. there are people making this case I will listen to. he is not one of them.
Will Code For Pizza6One of my theories of AI's general toxicity is that it has never had a normal public-facing cheerleader
Ryan Wiley1I'm not exactly sure of the strategy of pushing back against employees wanting dirt cheap amenities like diet Snapple when the average coding agent can replace someone like Zuckerberg.
I'll save you the trouble of reading Zuckerberg's new essay, but here's the link anyway if you insist. What he means is "Meta is for Controlling Everyone" AI between YOU and everything is a bold "man-in-the-middle" attack The only winners are the CIA, Meta, and billionaires Everyone else loses
👻20The only solution to this is open models, with no man-in-the-middle Locally run AI is the only sensible approach But that's going to become almost impossible as AI is stuffed into all software and hardware, especially everything that Meta, X, et al, do
SicJake3Is this why his yacht couldn't answer a distress call. The most basic thing a lizardman from Mars pretending to be human could do? He should be writing less essays and go back to his bunker
TurblesCelbor2Yeah, his desciption of "access" is just a futures market. zuck's brain cooked by his money. He cant see anything but eternal stonks. stonks beyond number.
Throwing $1B at this is chump change for META. Cloaking hyper AI datacenters in secrecy to steamroller them all over the country is disingenuous and sneaky for a publicly-held co.
Lee West7Every lawmaker who signed NDAs with META, not just in Louisiana, but all around the country needs to be exposed now. www.nola.com/news/politic...
Lee West6How many Ohio legislators signed NDAs on the new META 1GW supercluster Prometheus in New Albany, Ohio? And will it be tax free??? Ohio's biggest data centers secured decades of tax breaks: ohiohouse.gov/members/tris...
SheiSho2Oh good, if we get a data center we also get more cops too? That'll really sell these things to the masses.
KB DogsRule2So a lot of senators, house members at state and local levels, council members and police chiefs are about to get rich?
