despite being "dumber than cats", facebook already has a documented history of doing damage to society

If it were true that the smartest humans wanted to dominate others, then Albert Einstein and other scientists would have been both rich and powerful, and they were neither.

yet Einstein was one of the signatories of the letter than triggered the Manhattan project

I think it’s exciting because those machines will be doing our bidding,” he said. “They will be under our control.”

this seems like hubris when facebook struggles to control its current recommendation engine