{"id":1029282,"date":"2026-08-17T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029282"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:15:32","slug":"ai-news-tracker-mark-zuckerberg-writes-a-tech-optimist-manifesto-even-as-eus-ai-act-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/ai-news-tracker-mark-zuckerberg-writes-a-tech-optimist-manifesto-even-as-eus-ai-act-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"AI News Tracker: Mark Zuckerberg writes a tech optimist manifesto even as EU&#8217;s AI Act bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zuckerman the philosopher<\/p>\n<p>The urge for tech owners to write manifestos isn\u2019t new, and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg added to this burgeoning literature last week with his 6,500 word defense of AI. In it, he speaks as a tech optimist, telling people that AI is ok, that it will not take away people\u2019s jobs, that it should be open sourced, that innovation shouldn\u2019t have guardrails and that AI will enrich human life and not cheapen it. He is baffled by the increasing backlash against AI use leading to layoffs, against data centers, against rogue AI\u2019s, including Meta\u2019s, hacking businesses. \u201cI do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity\u2019s relevance would rush to build that future,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuckerman the philosopher The urge for tech owners to write manifestos isn\u2019t new, and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg added to this burgeoning literature last week with his 6,500 word defense of AI. In it, he speaks as a tech optimist, telling people that AI is ok, that it will not take away people\u2019s jobs, that it should be open sourced, that innovation shouldn\u2019t have guardrails and that AI will enrich human life and not cheapen it. He is baffled by the increasing backlash against AI use leading to layoffs, against data centers, against rogue AI\u2019s, including Meta\u2019s, hacking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029283,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029282\/revisions\/1029283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}