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This past week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word <\/b>open letter<\/b>, external<\/span><\/a> entitled “The Future is for Everyone”.<\/b><\/p>\n To some, it’s an expression of hope in AI’s promise. To others, it’s little more than a verbose public relations exercise.<\/p>\n Zuckerberg’s manifesto is the latest example of a tech boss opining on why AI is the next big thing.<\/p>\n His vision echoes what AI leaders have expressed in various forms: the product they are building is among the “most important technologies in history.”<\/p>\n Marc Andreessen, co-founder of early web titan Netscape, perhaps started this trend in 2023 with a 5,000-word essay he called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto”, which argued innovation was the way to solve life’s problems.<\/p>\n \u201cSo they’re writing manifestos now?,\u201d I remember thinking to myself.<\/p>\n Andreessen’s writing began with him recounting lies he claimed people were spreading, and called for readers to push back against this.<\/p>\n “We believe growth is progress \u2013 leading to vitality, expansion of life, increasing knowledge, higher well being,” he wrote.<\/p>\n Zuckerberg’s recent essay doesn’t name names – but the Meta boss mimics Andreessen by questioning those who have warned about the negatives of future tech.<\/p>\n “It is surprising that the discourse from many developing AI is so filled with doom,” he writes. <\/p>\n