Mark Surman, president of Mozilla Foundation, speaks at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York City, U.S., May 22, 2024.
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FROM A REMOTE FARMHOUSE, A LONELY CRUSADER DECLARES WAR ON THE AI GODS. Mark Surman, the 56-year-old president of the fading Mozilla Foundation, is marshaling a pathetic “rebel alliance” in a desperate, last-ditch effort to stop the AI juggernauts he claims are HIJACKING HUMANITY’S FUTURE. With a paltry $35 million war chest against the TRILLION-DOLLAR behemoths of OpenAI and Google, this is a suicide mission dressed up as idealism.
“They are taking a lot of shortcuts,” Surman SHOUTS into the void, accusing Silicon Valley’s elite of recklessly building god-like intelligence with ZERO regard for safety. His so-called alliance is a ragtag group of terrified startups and ex-Google engineers who fled their lucrative posts, haunted by the MONSTERS they helped create. They whisper about “winner-takes-all” mentalities and corporate cannibalism, painting a picture of an industry where OPEN SOURCE is just a Trojan horse for TOTAL DOMINATION.
But the battle is ALREADY LOST. The Trump administration, led by AI czar David Sacks, has branded any caution as “woke” obstruction, unleashing a federal task force to CRUSH regulatory efforts. Meanwhile, the very startups Surman recruits are ABANDONING HIS REBEL DREAM, admitting they still want a piece of the lucrative AI revolution he condemns. This isn’t a noble fight—it’s the final, whimpering protest of a obsolete internet era being ERASED by forces it can no longer comprehend or control.
The terrifying truth is not that Surman will fail, but that his quixotic struggle is the ONLY THING standing between us and a future entirely shaped by unchecked, profit-drunk corporations wielding power we cannot fathom. When the last rebel falls, will you even notice your mind is no longer your own?
Author: Kayitsi.com
