“Careless People” is a memoir that Meta does not want you to read. It is a nasty book. Not as a book but as a story of how nasty megalomaniacs run a large company without being accountable to anyone. A book about hubris. About corruption.
Money and power corrupts
How Meta manipulated elections, cooperates with China, had a role in supporting the dictators in Myanmar, has developed emotional targeting and addictive design, abuses its data access and treats staff like shit. Depicts Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg as complete head bangers. Focussed on money and power at the cost of any type of decency.
Don’t trust Facebook
Don’t trust Facebook would be the key message. The more power they grasp, the less responsible they become. Also read “The four” and “Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software”. “Stellar: A world beyond limits and how to get there” warns about the ownership of AI. “Careless people” makes it crystal clear that we should do everything in our power to ensure that Meta does not become dominant in AI. “Scary Smart” will show you how toxic content and behaviour create toxic and dangerous AI.
Train your brain
Consider AyuervedAI, BuddhAI, or ChakrAI instead. Only trust your own natural intelligence. You are the upgrade.
