TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything.
If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink. By giving you an off-switch, Mozilla’s leadership shifts the ethical burden of AI onto the user - turning their design choices into your responsibility.
Mozilla only has finite time, money, and resources, so the impact of these features is a detriment to even the people who don't use them. Those resources could have been better budgeted.
For example, "image caption for the blind" sounds great, but do you know how worthless it actually is? For starters, you can't use it on any webpage...