Extremely glad to see Mozilla taking a stance here.

28th of april 2025, isn't this before mozilla added lots of AI feature in their browser?

Archibald is anti-AI. 70+% of his public statements have demonstrated that.

He is more or less aligned with the current most common sentiment in the west which is largely publicly against AI.

But realistically it's just slow adaptation, network effects, etc.

To give an example, before the MLB rolled out the Automated Ball Strike system this year, last year maybe 65+% of the sentiment in discussions about it was negative or in some cases just neutral.

Now that it has rolled out, 95% of the sentiment online about ABS is positive. The main comment by far is, why didn't they do this before, and why don't they do it automatically on all pitches now.

There are certain cognitive and informational flow limitations in society that will cause this to be delayed, just like all major technological advancements.

But once it rolls out, the perspective you hear online will be about digital sovereignty/personal data autonomy, now we aren't required to send our data to an external provider for AI, why wasn't this available before. People will probably assume it was blocked because it reduced a major source of data for advertising or something.

And overall AI and robotics in the future will be seen as the greatest enabling factor for increased equality in society.

It's really just this underlying dislike of and disrespect for technology that much of the western public has. Which may turn out to be one of the reasons that we lose our de facto leadership position in the world.