Paul Ricoeur
On AI
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Foreword
By Edo Segal
The passage I could not write was the one about myself.
Not the confessional passages — those came easier than expected, probably because confession has a familiar shape. The passage I could not write was the one that explained why I build. Not what I build, or how, or for whom. Why. The motivation beneath the motivation. The thing that makes me open the laptop at six in the morning before anyone else is awake and start a conversation with a machine about something that does not yet exist.
I had the words for every other part of the argument. I could describe the technology, the economics, the vertigo, the fear for my children. But when I turned the lens inward and asked the simplest question
