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Jaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018

Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung · lecture · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Jaron Lanier delivers the 2018 Willy Brandt Lecture in Berlin on who civilization is for, covering data, AI, tech platforms and the economics of who benefits, followed by a Q&A with Germany's data protection commissioner Ulrich Kelber.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it for Lanier's ideas on the circle of empathy and paying people whose data and work train AI.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “I recently came across a lecture by Jaron Lanier that discusses this kind of thinking and how to reason about it.”

    Lanier's 'circle of empathy' for who benefits from your work

    animal_spirits, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’”

  2. “The best proposal I’ve heard to deal with the societal/economic problems this sort of A.I. poses were made by Jaron Lanier”

    Lanier's proposal of micro-compensation for people whose work trains AI

    vghfgk1000, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code”

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Topics: jaron lanier, ai, data dignity, privacy, tech ethics

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