Ruth Schwartz Cowan
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 Ruth Schwartz Cowan. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Ruth Schwartz Cowan'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 hour I cannot account for is the one that bothers me most.
Not the hours I spent building. Not the hours I spent writing. Not even the hours I spent at three in the morning unable to close the laptop because Claude and I were in the middle of something that felt too alive to interrupt. Those hours I can name. Those hours I chose, or at least I tell myself I chose them.
The hour I cannot account for is the one that disappeared into checking. Into reviewing output I did not write to make sure it said what I meant. Into re-reading code that compiled perfectly but might not do what I needed it to do. Into the strange, draining labor of verifying