India, Aug. 11 -- We've had a stream of this. Just this year, apart from all the incessant noise, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Sir Demis Hassabis, who is now Chief Scientist of Alphabet, Chair of Google DeepMind, and the Co-founder and CEO of Isomorphic Labs, have given us long-drawn explanations of their vision for AI. In parallel, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang also leave no chance to tell us how great artificial intelligence (AI) is. And now Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Meta, wants to be the adult in the room, telling us all will be okay. Will it? I'm not so sure.

I write this column on this theme, because a few hours ago, Mark Zuckerberg posted what can only really be classif...