Your A.I. Lover Will Change You
Jaron Lanier on the rise of AI romance and its implications in the New Yorker
If we do not govern
our technology,
it will govern us.
But this anti-human outcome is not inevitable. Today, we are issuing a call to take back control, as a society, of our pathways of technological innovation, guarding the human body, childhood, and the family, against technological hacks that degrade the human person, and channeling innovation toward new forms of production that dignify work and empower the household.
President, the Ethics and Public Policy Center
Fellow, the Ethics and Public Policy Center; editor in chief, Fairer Disputations
Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, the American Enterprise Institute
Founder and chief economist, American Compass
Senior fellow, the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
Editor, National Review
Editor, First Things
President, The Heritage Foundation
Senior fellow, the American Enterprise Institute
President, Centennial Professor of Theology, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Distinguished Fellow in American Thought, The Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, The Heritage Foundation, Chairman, National Conservatism Conference
Author of Feminism Against Progress
"Whom do we serve? My answer is simple:
I serve my child.
I cannot defend commerce when it is used to addict his toddler brain to screens, and to addict his adolescent brain to pornography."
Two recent articles by the authors of the Statement of Principles provide additional context, vision, and scope for the project.
National Affairs
The New Atlantis
Jaron Lanier on the rise of AI romance and its implications in the New Yorker
Vice President J.D. Vance's speech at the a16z American Dynamism summit
Katherine Boyle's keynote address at our Dignity and Dynamism event, hosted at the American Enterprise Institute
Neil Postman's classic examination of how we should approach technological changes
A conversation about the future of conservative technology policy, hosted at AEI
A New Technology Agenda for the Right