Robert Bjork
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 Robert Bjork. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Robert Bjork'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 muscle I trusted most was the one that was atrophying fastest.
I don't mean my coding ability or my management instincts or any of the skills I've spent chapters of *You On AI* describing as ascending to higher floors. I mean something more fundamental. The muscle of sitting with not-knowing. The capacity to hold a problem in my mind long enough for the problem to teach me something before I reached for the answer.
I noticed it on a Tuesday in March 2026. I was debugging a routing issue in one of Station's audio pipelines. Three months earlier, I would have stared at the logs, traced the signal path, formed a theory, tested it, been wrong, formed another. The whole ugly, slow, frustrating process
