Sherry Turkle
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 Sherry Turkle. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Sherry Turkle'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 person I hurt most during the writing of *You On AI* was in the next room.
Not hurt in any dramatic way. No argument, no slammed door. Just the quiet accumulation of evenings where my eyes were on a screen and my mind was three conversations deep with Claude, building something I believed mattered, feeling more creatively alive than I had in years — while someone who loved me sat on the other side of a wall, waiting for a version of me that kept not arriving.
I knew it was happening. I describe it in the book — the inability to stop, the exhilaration that curdles into compulsion. But I described it as a problem of boundaries. A problem of discipline. A problem I