Tech Bros Thinking Being Rich Equates To Wisdom

 Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying

His point that people need more friends gels with recent research into the ill-health effects of isolation. But Zuckerberg’s idea of patching over loneliness with algorithmic avatars is an ugly vision of the world: a purposeful unraveling of the social fabric that gives us community, culture, accountability and love. We need to refuse this vision. The solution to not having enough friends is — needs to be — making more friends. More care and responsibility for our neighbors, not bubbles of solitude. 

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 It shouldn’t take pressure from the media for Meta to have a moral compass. It’s a nearly $2 trillion company with billions of worldwide users and entire teams of safety and policy staffers. Its employees live in the same world we do, where children obviously shouldn’t be learning about romance from flirtatious chatbots.

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 These chatbots can’t take the blame, they’re software. So we look to Meta. This is the company that lobbied Washington for a ban on state-level AI regulation. This is the company through which Zuckerberg hopes to sell us all AI-embedded glasses, and give us AI-chatbot friends. And this is the company, we now know, that we shouldn’t trust with any of it.

We have a federal government being dominated by Donald J. Trump to the detriment of the public good. So long as the tech bros stroke Trump's ego, we are not safe from them

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