Jean Piaget
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 Jean Piaget. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Jean Piaget'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 building I worry about most is not made of code.
It is the cognitive architecture inside my son's head — the invisible scaffolding of frameworks, assumptions, and self-concepts he has been assembling since before he could speak. I cannot see it. I cannot debug it. I cannot prompt Claude to optimize it. But every decision I make as a parent either strengthens that architecture or applies weight to joints that have not yet set.
When he asked me at dinner whether AI was going to take everyone's jobs, I gave him an honest answer. What I did not give him — because I did not yet have it — was a developmental one. I did not understand that the question itself was a construction event.
