Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto called 'The Future is for Everyone' arguing that superintelligence will prioritize invention over automation. The piece arrives after Sam Altman's 2021 'Moore's Law for Everything,' his 2024 'The Intelligence Age,' and Dario Amodei's 'Machines of Loving Grace,' all optimistic framings from men who spent years calling AI an existential threat. Altman called superintelligence 'probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity' in 2015. Amodei published a detailed nightmare scenario essay as recently as January 2026. Zuckerberg has no such record of warning anyone about anything.
Every policy proposal in the manifesto maps to a Meta commercial interest: accelerate data center permitting (Meta is building a neocloud business), maintain chip export controls (advantages Meta's open-weights models over Chinese competitors), loosen training data restrictions (Meta faces active lawsuits from creators), and protect distillation legally (lets Meta train on frontier lab outputs). The Louisiana data center alone, projected to consume seven times New Orleans' total energy use, was secured through dozens of NDAs and up to $10 billion in sales-tax breaks, while Zuckerberg frames it publicly as a community partnership that funded $50,000 teacher bonuses.
The full piece is worth reading because the hypocrisy is structural, not incidental. Zuckerberg celebrates democratic voice while Meta lobbies aggressively against state AI regulations and routes payments to Trump interests. The column also flags that Anthropic's unreleased model made substantive progress on a problem related to the 167-year-old Riemann hypothesis after a non-mathematician prompted it to 'believe in itself.' The gap between that capability and how CEOs currently discuss job displacement is the actual story the manifesto is trying to paper over.
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