Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Elisabeth Kubler-Ross'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 nobody in my industry wants to admit to is mourning.
I watched it in Trivandrum. Twenty engineers, brilliant people, sitting with the recognition that a tool costing a hundred dollars a month could perform work they had spent decades learning to do. I described the exhilaration in *You On AI*. I described the terror. What I did not describe, because I did not yet have the language for it, was the third thing in the room. Quieter than the other two. Heavier.
It was grief.
Not for a job. Not for a paycheck. For an identity. For the story each of them had told themselves about why their years of effort mattered, what their mastery meant, who they were
