Tech CEOs are writing 6,500-word manifestos. Who’s actually reading?

Good morning. Phil Wahba writing this morning from New York. Earlier this week, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a few of his thoughts. Specifically 6,500 words outlining ways to spread the wealth and opportunity from AI to all people, including skeptics such as residents of communities that host data centers. That word count made the piece about one-tenth the length of the average novel—and 10x his article on Personal Superintelligence a year ago. And Zuckerberg is not alone: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei delivered the longest piece in this genre so far in 2024 with his 13,000-word “Machines of Loving Grace” essay, while Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has also joined in, as have other AI CEOs. The official explanation is high-minded: with Wall Street scrutinizing Meta’s tens of billions