John Maynard Keynes
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 John Maynard Keynes. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate John Maynard Keynes'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 question that kept nagging me was not about what we could build. It was about what happens after we build it.
I had spent months inside the exhilaration. The twenty-fold productivity multiplier in Trivandur. The thirty-day sprint to CES. The feeling of the imagination-to-artifact ratio collapsing to nearly nothing. I was deep in the river, building dams, watching my team expand into capabilities none of us had possessed six months earlier. The output was extraordinary. The tools were extraordinary. Everything pointed upward.
And yet something in the arithmetic did not resolve.
If each of my engineers could now do what twenty used to do together, the math presented a choice that no amount of enthusiasm could obscure. keep the
