Bruno Latour
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 Bruno Latour. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Bruno Latour'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 credit was wrong and I knew it before Latour gave me the word.
I shipped Napster Station after a thirty-day sprint and stood on the CES floor watching hundreds of people talk to a machine I had built. Built. That was the verb I used on stage, in interviews, in my own head. I built this. My vision. My team. Our thirty days of sleepless intensity.
Except I hadn't built it. Not alone. Not even close.
Claude had written most of the code. The training data behind Claude encoded the work of millions of developers I would never meet. The cloud infrastructure ran on chips fabricated in facilities I could not locate on a map. The audio models drew on decades of research funded by institutions whose
