Soren Kierkegaard
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 Soren Kierkegaard. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Soren Kierkegaard'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 confession I almost deleted was the one about not knowing who I was becoming.
It sat in an early draft of *You On AI* for three days before I cut it. Too raw. Too unresolved. Too close to the thing I didn't want to look at directly. I replaced it with something cleaner — a passage about productivity metrics and organizational transformation. The clean version said more. The deleted version meant more.
Kierkegaard would have kept the deleted version. He would have insisted on it.
I came to Kierkegaard not through philosophy but through a feeling I couldn't name. Somewhere in the months after that week in Trivandrum — after watching twenty engineers transform before my eyes, after the exhilaration and the terror
