Kate Raworth
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 Kate Raworth. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Kate Raworth'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 shape that broke my thinking was not a line. It was a ring.
Every metric I have ever used to measure progress points in one direction: up. Revenue up. Users up. Productivity up. The twenty-fold multiplier I describe in *You On AI* — up. The adoption curves that stunned the industry — up. The imagination-to-artifact ratio collapsing toward zero — a line heading down, which in this context also means up. Every instrument in the builder's fishbowl draws arrows, and every arrow points toward more.
Kate Raworth drew a doughnut and asked a question none of my instruments could formulate: More of what? And for whom? And at what cost to the living systems that make "more" possible in the first place?
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