Joseph Stiglitz
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 Joseph Stiglitz. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Joseph Stiglitz'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 price was wrong. That is the sentence I kept turning over after reading Stiglitz, and it is the one that changed how I think about everything I built in Trivandrum.
I had been telling the story of the twenty-fold multiplier as a story about capability. Twenty engineers, each doing the work of a team, at a hundred dollars a month. The numbers were real. The exhilaration was real. The expansion of what each person could attempt was genuinely new. I wrote about it in *You On AI* as a story about human potential unleashed.
Stiglitz made me see the price tag I had not examined.
Not the hundred dollars. The other price — the one the market was quietly setting while I celebrated
