AI Expert Explains How Big Tech Manipulates What You Think

Justin Lane is an Oxford University-trained artificial intelligence (AI) expert and entrepreneur with no patience for fluffy theories. That led to some fascinating fieldwork in Northern Ireland, where he studied Irish Republican Army and Ulster Defence Association extremists up close. Ultimately, he applied his humanities research to AI programming and agent-based computer simulations. Somehow, he managed to enter undergrad in Baltimore, Md. as a Green Party liberal and emerge from England's ivory towers as a Second Amendment advocate. He now describes himself as a political moderate with "a libertarian flavor." When I first met him, Lane was working at the Center for Mind and Culture in Boston.