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Comment by Jaron Lanier
Virtual reality pioneer and computer scientist
Normally we talk about AI as a thing. It's this object that's out there. The AI did this; the AI did that. But there's another way [to think about it], which is to say, no, it's a collaboration of humans.
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(2026)
1mo ago
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Verification History
AI Verified
Quote attributed to Jaron Lanier, year 2026. The Brown University source URL returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but a web search confirmed the quote verbatim from the Brown News article on his Leon Cooper Seminar Series lecture (April 23, 2026): "Normally we talk about AI as a thing... It's this object that's out there. The AI did this; the AI did that. But there's another way [to think about it], which is to say, no, it's a collaboration of humans." The [...] elision and bracket are faithful. Lanier rejects the framing of AI as an autonomous entity, consistent with his well-documented skepticism toward the concept of AGI and the "against" vote on the statement "Build artificial general intelligence." Author attribution, year, relevancy, and vote direction all check out.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 15d ago
replying to Jaron Lanier