Evgeny Morozov
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 Evgeny Morozov. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Evgeny Morozov'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 tool I couldn't stop using was the one I never thought to question.
The infrastructure I depended on without governing. The terms I accepted without negotiating. The political economy I participated in without examining.
Not whether it worked. It worked spectacularly. Not whether it was useful. It was the most useful thing I had ever touched. The question I never asked was simpler and more dangerous: whose interests does this serve beyond mine?
I described in You On AI the exhilaration of building with Claude — the four-in-the-morning sessions, the inability to stop, the imagination-to-artifact ratio collapsing to the width of a conversation. Every word of that was true. What I did not describe, because I did not yet have the vocabulary, was the structure I was building
