Anthony Giddens
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Anthony Giddens. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Anthony Giddens's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The feeling I couldn't name had a name.
Not the vertigo — I had words for that. Not the exhilaration or the terror or the both-at-once. I wrote about all of those in You On AI. What I couldn't name was something quieter and more structural. The way my engineer in Trivandrum lost confidence in his architectural decisions months after Claude took over the plumbing — and couldn't explain why. The way the developer who posted about never working so hard or having so much fun sounded indistinguishable from the developer who couldn't stop. The way a twelve-year-old's question — "What am I for?" — landed differently than any market analysis or adoption curve.
I was describing symptoms. I needed a diagnosis.
