'Society cannot function if no one is accountable for AI' — Jaron Lanier, the godfather of virtual reality, discusses how far our empathy should extend to AI in episode two ...

As AI spreads faster than the rules meant to govern it, technologists warn that progress without human accountability risks ...
Smithsonian Magazine

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?

Jaron Lanier was one of the creators of our current digital reality and now he wants to subvert the web before it engulfs us all. Robert Holmgren I couldn’t help thinking of John Le Carré’s spy novels ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Hollywood Flashback: How Virtual Reality Flopped 30 Years Ago

Three decades before Oculus introduced its $599 Rift VR headset, VPL Research founder Jaron Lanier attempted to sell the industry on a head-mounted display unit called the "EyePhone." By Bill Higgins ...
Publishers Weekly

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

Alternating between personal memoir and the history of virtual reality technology leading up to take, computer scientist Lanier (Who Owns the Future?) transports readers to the experimental, obsessive ...
KCRW

Jaron Lanier: ‘The Internet is worse’ than Congress

Jaron Lanier with his khene outside the KCRW studio. For best-selling author Jaron Lanier, society’s dependence on digital networks kindled the economic recession and is responsible for the declining ...