Rosalind Krauss
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 Rosalind Krauss. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Rosalind Krauss'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 category I never noticed was the one doing all the work.
I spent the months writing *You On AI* talking about authorship. Who wrote this book — me or Claude? Was the laparoscopic surgery insight mine, or the machine's, or the collaboration's? I wrestled with that question honestly, or so I thought. But I was wrestling inside a framework I had never examined. I was asking "who is the author?" as though "author" were a stable container, a fixed thing in the world, like a rock or a river. I never stopped to ask whether the container itself had cracked.
Rosalind Krauss stopped to ask. For five decades, she has been the person who looks at the category everyone else is