It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
Jaron LanierI mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.
Jaron LanierThere is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
Jaron LanierPeople try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
Jaron LanierThe upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,โ the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. โImagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.
Jaron Lanier