The Mozilla Foundation has rebranded to reflect internal changes and to maintain its commitment to an open, inclusive internet. Executive director Nabiha Syed emphasizes the need to adapt to contemporary challenges such as AI and surveillance capitalism. The focus is on revisiting foundational principles to understand the purpose of the open web in the current context. Syed envisions mobilizing community participation to envision a positive future and highlights the continuity of technological shifts from browsers to social media, now leading to generative AI.
Syed sees AI as the next frontier of our digital lives. The continuum of mediating technologies began with the browser, then shifted toward social media, and has migrated to generative AI models.
"We sort of knew what the internet was and it went through phases," said Syed. "But now, with the onslaught of AI slop and surveillance capitalism running amok, we really have to go back to first principles: why do we care about the open internet, the open web?"
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