Decoding Zuck’s Superintelligence Memo
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta (aka the company formerly known as Facebook), has published a memorandum about “superintelligence” and what it will mean not only for his company but for the world and society at large. It has had a wide variety of reactions ranging from delight to derision. As is normally the case, every single time I come across a memo such as one published by any chief executive (or a founder), I ask myself a few simple questions:
I am in the unique position to dig into Zuck’s words — I was one of the earliest reporters to write about a nascent and burgeoning Facebook (when it was called TheFacebook) and was a campus-only phenomenon. I have followed Facebook (now Meta) long enough to distinguish between what the company says and what it really means.
And over almost two decades of following the company, I have come to a conclusion that Zuck is one of the best “chief executives” to come out of Silicon Valley. And this is coming from someone who has no qualms about viewing him with moral disdain. In the past, I have referred to the company as “amoral” for a reason. Not only is Zuckerberg paranoid and Machiavellian, he is also willing to go to any extreme to survive and thrive.
