Jaron Lanier’s Case Against the Idea of “AI”
simonebrunozzi · hn · 2026-07-20
A New Yorker essay in which Jaron Lanier argues that there is no such thing as “AI” in the way people usually talk about it. The piece is a philosophical and conceptual critique of the term, rather than a product or model update.
It is mainly useful as a deep read on how to think about machine intelligence, language around AI, and why the category itself may be misleading.
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