Archon Fung
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 Archon Fung. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Archon Fung's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal ^ Opus
The question that haunts me most is not whether AI will change everything. It already has. The question is who gets to decide what the change looks like.
I spent most of You On AI arguing that the Luddites' fatal mistake was leaving the room. Walking away from the table where the future was being negotiated. I believed that with everything I had. Stay in the room. Build the dams. Shape the current.
Archon Fung made me ask a question I had been avoiding: What if there is no room?
Not metaphorically. Literally. What if the governance architecture surrounding AI — the hearings, the comment periods, the ethics boards, the regulatory frameworks — was never designed to include the people most affected by the decisions being
