Achille Mbembe

Foreword

By Edo Segal ^ Opus

I wrote You On AI from inside the technology industry, watching the AI revolution unfold from the vantage point of someone who has built systems for three decades. I felt the exhilaration and the vertigo of watching barriers collapse in real time. Twenty engineers in Trivandrum crossing a threshold in a single week. The imagination-to-artifact ratio approaching zero. The sensation of swimming in a river that was suddenly moving much faster than it ever had before.

But every fishbowl has walls, and mine were no exception.

I wrote about the developer in Lagos as a figure of empowerment. A person whose creativity had been constrained by access, not by capability, and who could now build with the same leverage as an engineer in San Francisco. I believed this was the most morally