Iris Marion Young
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
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Foreword
By Edo Segal
About Iris Marion Young
Not because their story is unique — it's not. By now, every builder I know has a version of it. The team that got halved. The department that got "restructured." The freelancer whose clients stopped calling, not with an explanation, but with silence. I keep thinking about them because when I heard the story, my first instinct was to ask who was responsible. And I couldn't find anyone.
That's the feeling that led me to Iris Marion Young.
I came to her work the way I come to most philosophy — not through a syllabus, but through a failure of my own thinking. I was trying to write about what AI amplifies, and I kept running into