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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe idea of Mark Zuckerberg running for president
was always sort of scary.
But now its really scary, given what weve discovered about the power of his little invention to warp democracy.
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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebooks C.O.O., apologized for this on Wednesday and promised to fix the ad-buying tools, noting, We never intended or anticipated this functionality being used this way and that is on us.
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The Sandberg admission was also game, set and match for Elon Musk, who has been sounding the alarm for years about the danger of Silicon Valleys creations and A.I. mind children getting out of control and hurting humanity. His pleas for safeguards and regulations have been mocked as hysterical and pretty irresponsible by Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg, whose project last year was building a Jarvis-style A.I. butler for his home, likes to paint himself as an optimist and Musk as a doomsday prophet. But Sandbergs comment shows that Musk is right: The digerati at Facebook and Google are either being naïve or cynical and greedy in thinking that its enough just to have a vague code of conduct that says Dont be evil, as Google does.
As Musk told me when he sat for a Vanity Fair piece: Its great when the emperor is Marcus Aurelius. Its not so great when the emperor is Caligula.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/opinion/sunday/facebook-zuckerberg-dowd.html?_r=0
JustAnotherGen
(31,781 posts)Or a 2 year seat within California.
But I agree - I don't want him anywhere near elected office.
BeyondGeography
(39,351 posts)from the London Review of Books:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n16/john-lanchester/you-are-the-product
It's a surveillance organization for advertisers with free labor provided by two billion people.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Knr
C_U_L8R
(44,990 posts)You cant govern like a corporation... as were seeing with this disastrous trump flop. What a mess.
mrs_p
(3,014 posts)I just need to get ten years worth of pictures downloaded first.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)He's another one of those guys calling for a universal basic income while sitting on tens of billions of dollars. Well Zuckerberg, how about you lead the charge and donate some of your money to help the people of this country?
Takket
(21,529 posts)Don't know if he did but I remember hearing that a while back