{"id":149935,"date":"2022-11-11T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-build-a-mind-reading-machine"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:22:57","slug":"zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-build-a-mind-reading-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-build-a-mind-reading-machine","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zuckerberg-wants-facebook-to-build-a-mind-reading-machine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg likes to quote Steve Jobs\u2019 description of computers as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rTRzYjoZhIY\">bicycles for the mind<\/a>.\u201d I can imagine him thinking, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with helping us pedal a little faster?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rTRzYjoZhIY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And while I reflexively gag at Zuckerberg\u2019s thinking, that isn\u2019t meant to discount its potential to do great things or to think that holding it off will be easy or necessarily desirable. But at a minimum, we should demand a pause to ask hard questions about such barrier-breaking technologies\u2014each quietly in our own heads, I should hasten to add, and then later as a society.<\/p>\n<p>We need to pump the brakes on Silicon Valley, at least temporarily. For, if the Zuckerberg reflection tour has revealed anything, it is that even as he wrestles with the harms Facebook has wrought, he is busy dreaming up new ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuckerberg likes to quote Steve Jobs\u2019 description of computers as \u201cbicycles for the mind.\u201d I can imagine him thinking, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with helping us pedal a little faster?\u201d And while I reflexively gag at Zuckerberg\u2019s thinking, that isn\u2019t meant to discount its potential to do great things or to think that holding it off will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}