AI is good, we swear! Trust us!

iStock; Tyler Le/BI Meta's new ad is a Lisa Frank wet dream. There are rainbows, butterflies, bear hugs, and smash-cuts between three grinning children. It's a smiley, cloying vision for AI. The ad's narrator beckons us to call Meta's staff "optimists" and "dreamers," and says that the company is "betting on people" — tell that to the 8,000 workers Meta just laid off. It promises that the "future is for everyone" — a surprisingly collectivist mission for a company that has recently hired sev...