Judith Shklar
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 Judith Shklar. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Judith Shklar'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 suffering I kept misclassifying was my own team's.
Not dramatically. Not in any way that would show up in an exit interview or a Glassdoor review. The kind of suffering that hides inside opportunity. The kind where the person bearing it describes it as excitement, because the vocabulary available to them — the vocabulary I helped create, the culture I helped build — has no other word for what they are feeling.
I wrote in *You On AI* about the engineer in Trivandrum who spent two days oscillating between excitement and terror. I celebrated the resolution: he found his footing, discovered that the twenty percent of his work that was judgment and taste was the part that mattered most. I framed it as
