video pub. May 23, 2026
On StarTalk, computer scientist and VR pioneer Jaron Lanier argues large language models are best understood as a collaboration of people's combined work rather than an autonomous entity, and traces how network effects centralize power online, why VR never found its killer app, and his case for "data dignity" — compensating people for the data that trains AI — as an alternative to behavior-prediction-driven business models.