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Vowing to make it the “world’s most trusted software company,” Mozilla’s board of directors announced Tuesday it was appointing Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as the new CEO, whose mandate will be to achieve that lofty goal.
Enzor-DeMeo, former GM of Firefox, wrote in a blog that becoming trusted “is not a slogan, but a direction involving three strategies, key among them being that privacy, data use, and AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.”
In addition, he wrote, the firm’s business model must align with trust, and Firefox “will evolve into a modern AI browser.”
The new CEO, who replaces interim CEO Laura Chambers, who is returning to the Mozilla board, stated in a release, “the browser is AI’s next battleground. It’s where people live their online lives and where the next era’s questions of trust, data use, and transparency will be decided.”
Describing Mozilla’s strategy announcement as an “interesting development,” Sanchit Vir Gogia, the chief analyst at Greyhound Research, said that the debate around browser-based AI has been framed far too narrowly and often presented as a choice between two...