🔍 Outside the Box: Mark Zuckerberg’s Digital Feudalism

$100 million for a single engineer.”
This headline, more science fiction than salary negotiation, lays bare a truth of our digital age: we are not just witnessing the rise of artificial intelligence—we are watching the consolidation of a new kind of digital feudalism, where wealth and ambition blur the lines between innovation and unchecked power.

At the center of this reality sits Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, who, according to reports, is forming a secretive new AI team with the singular aim of building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—machines capable of reasoning, planning, remembering, and learning like (or better than) humans.

But is this really just about technology? Or are we seeing the emergence of something far more complex and dangerous—the privatization of human intelligence itself?

The narrative driving AGI is based on a simplified model of the human mind—one that centers on four key traits:

• Reasoning
• Planning
• Memory
• Knowledge

These are undoubtedly central to intelligence. But human cognition also includes empathy, creativity, self-awareness, contextual judgment, and moral reasoning—qualities far more difficult to quantify, replicate, or commodify.

What happens when the richest among us try to reduce humanity to logic trees and data sets? Are we designing smarter tools—or reinventing ourselves as tools in a billionaire’s laboratory?

Zuckerberg’s $100M recruitment offer is not about altruism. It’s a strategic power play—a calculated step in a race among the tech elite to own the future of intelligence. And behind that move lies an unsettling pattern:

• Money is not just funding research. It’s shaping the trajectory of human evolution.
• Tech titans are not just building tools. They’re reshaping the power structures of society.
• AI development is not just scientific advancement. It’s a battlefield of ideology, control, and cultural dominance.

There is a psychological aspect here too. Call it hubris. The belief among a select few that they alone can—and should—craft the future of humanity. But when hubris meets power, history tells us the consequences can be catastrophic.

At FaceToFace TV, we’re committed to engaging, questioning, and exposing the hidden dynamics behind global narratives. So we pose these questions to you, our audience:

• What really defines intelligence—and who gets to decide?
• Should the development of AGI be guided by market forces, or by public debate and democratic oversight?
• Can we trust those with the most money to have the world’s best interests at heart?

To go deeper into these issues, we’re opening a series of discussions using this structure:

1. Defining Intelligence:
   How do we define human intelligence? What’s missing from the current AGI roadmap?
2. The Role of Power and Wealth:
   Who controls AI development, and what are the implications for democracy, equity, and freedom?
3. Ethics and Accountability:
   What safeguards are needed? Who watches the watchers?
4. The Public’s Role:
   How can everyday people participate in shaping the future of AI?

Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions might excite tech investors, but they should concern every citizen. If we don’t challenge the consolidation of technological power into the hands of a few, we may find ourselves living in a world where intelligence itself is patented, and the future is not built for the people, but on top of them.

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✊ Speak up before your silence becomes your surrender.
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