This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a roughly 6,500 word manifesto entitled ‘The Future is For Everyone’ outlining his vision for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). In the essay, which is available on Meta’s website, Mr. Zuckerberg called fears of AI-created destruction overblown, while he simultaneously extolled the virtues and benefits he believed AI would create for society.

Regarding the future of AI, Mr. Zuckerberg argued that ‘the defining questions of our age will be who has access to superintelligence and what will we direct it towards.’

Mr. Zuckerberg’s essay is likely an attempt to blunt the growing public backlash against AI and the enormous amount of infrastructure being built to support it. Data centers have become political lightning rods in the 2026 midterm elections, with many communities and citizens opposing their construction in their respective geographic areas. Concerns have grown over the impact of AI on the workforce as well, with record-low workforce participation rates being blamed in part on AI…

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The Future is For Everyone presents an optimistic view of AI, focused almost entirely on the potential benefits AI could provide. Claims that AI could develop new medications or facilitate new inventions are grounded in real-world applications, as those efforts are already underway. The notion that everyone could have a personal AI agent seems more far-fetched. For office workers, such a scenario is at least theoretically possible, but it is more difficult to imagine how carpenters or plumbers would have an AI driving nails or turning wrenches for them.

Pointing out the exaggerated hype over doomsday predictions for AI is where the essay is at its strongest, because nearly all those predications rely on AI capabilities that as yet at least do not exist. Yet the essay has a central and glaring contradiction. Mr. Zuckerberg writes, ‘Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes.’

Yet he appears to view AI as precisely such a benevolent source of power, and himself as someone capable of providing the necessary enlightenment. For example, putting power in people’s hands to pursue their aspirations sounds noble until you consider some of those aspirations include wiping out millions of fellow human beings. AI may help increase the number of entrepreneurs, but there is an entrepreneur saturation point where a given economy reaches the maximum number it can support, leaving everyone else out.     

Though the essay does outline efforts to mitigate the potential risks of widespread AI use, it rests on the assumption that everyone would want to and benefit from such usage. At the core of the argument is the idea that AI is essential to the future, and by extension, those who make the AI work, like Meta, are equally essential. This part of the argument is self-serving, which illustrates how easy it is for self-interest and profit-seeking to present themselves as vital goods for everyone.

The future of AI is still uncertain. Exactly how it will be utilized, and to what extent, are questions that can only be answered by the passage of time. The potential benefits AI offers are real, but so are the dangers. Ignoring the dangers for the benefits or vice versa is not a sound strategy. Big tech companies know what’s good for them, but it’s up to the rest of society to determine whether and to what extent that technology is good for them.

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