Hans Jonas
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 Hans Jonas. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Hans Jonas'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 obligation I never named was the one I felt most.
Through every chapter of *You On AI*, through the exhilaration of Trivandrum and the vertigo of the transatlantic flight and the quiet terror of my son's dinner-table questions, there was a weight I could describe but not diagnose. I called it vertigo. I called it productive fear. I called it the feeling of falling and flying at the same time. None of those phrases captured it precisely, because what I was feeling was not a sensation. It was a responsibility — one that arrived uninvited the moment the tools crossed the threshold, and one that I had no philosophical vocabulary to hold.
Hans Jonas gave me that vocabulary.
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