At the time of this writing, most BigTech companies have made significant investments in the AGI race. In 2023, Anthropic announced that Amazon “will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic” [93]. In a 2024 interview with The Verge, Mark Zucke…Hilary Greaves and William MacAskill, 2019. “The case for strong longtermism,” Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Working Paper, number 7-2019, at https://web.archive.org/web/20210710220451/https://globalprioritiesinstitute.org/wp-content/up…
Mark Zuckerberg
engineer · 4 mentions across 3 readings
In this course
Zuckerberg appears primarily as a figure emblematic of Big Tech's entry into the AI/AGI arms race, with the course readings positioning Meta's massive computational investments as part of a broader industry scramble for dominance in machine learning infrastructure. The excerpts suggest a secondary concern with Facebook's experimental practices and their psychological effects on users—a case study in how platform design optimizes for engagement regardless of documented harm, linking directly to questions about cybernetic feedback loops and corporate control over human attention and behavior.
Background
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman and programmer who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms. He is its chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and controlling shareholder.
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