Franco Bifo Berardi
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 Franco Bifo Berardi. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Franco Bifo Berardi's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
I didn't plan to lose my body. That's not something you plan for.
I was building — four hours, maybe five, I don't actually know — and when I finally stood up, my legs buckled. Not from exhaustion. From absence. I had forgotten I had legs. I had forgotten I had a stomach, a bladder, a spine that needed to move. The AI and I had been in a conversation so deep, so generative, so relentlessly productive that my physical self had simply... stopped registering. I was pure mind. Pure creative signal. And it felt *incredible*.
That's the part Bifo would want me to sit with. The feeling incredible part.
Because here's what I've learned building with AI every day: the moment it feels most like