Simone de Beauvoir

Foreword

By Edo Segal

You On AI was written from the felt sense of ground shifting beneath a builder's feet — an attempt to understand what was happening to the nature of work, of building, of human agency in an age when machines could think alongside human operators.

But You On AI is a builder's book. It approaches the AI revolution from the perspective of someone who makes things, who ships products, who feels the exhilaration and terror of working at the frontier of capability expansion. It asks practical questions: How can a civilization build responsibly? How can human judgment be amplified rather than displaced? How can dams be constructed in the river of intelligence?

This book asks deeper questions. Questions about freedom itself.

Simone de Beauvoir spent her life