Meta’s new “personalization” policy is the perfect snapshot of our age — the promise of intelligence, reduced to a sales pitch. They say it will make your experience more relevant. What it really means is more profitable — for them.
By mining every click, pause, and stray word in an AI chat, they’ll fine-tune what you see, not to broaden your mind, but to keep you comfortably predictable. Instead of opening new windows, it closes the blinds a little tighter.
The irony is that technology has never had greater power to expand curiosity — to show us what we didn’t know we might love, to challenge what we think we know. But that takes courage and long-term vision. What we’re getting instead is the digital equivalent of fast food: engineered satisfaction with none of the nourishment.
If intelligence — human or artificial — is to mean anything, it should push us outward, not lock us in. The algorithm shouldn’t be our mirror; it should be our telescope.
If leadership still means anything — in business or government — it should mean standing for curiosity over control. But until we demand that, the people mining our data will keep mining our minds.
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