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Evgeny Morozov
The Belarusian-born technology critic whose concepts of solutionism, cyber-utopianism, and AGI-ism have made him the most rigorous and most uncomfortable voice in the AI discourse—the thinker who insists, with polemical precision, that the questions the AI moment raises are political, not technical, and that answering them with better tools is not a solution but a symptom.
Evgeny Morozov (b. 1984) is the prosecutor of the ideology that produces AI as though producing AI were a neutral act. His 2011 book
The Net Delusion dismantled the narrative of the internet as an inherently democratizing force—not by denying the technology’s genuine capabilities but by showing that capability and power are not the same thing, and that the rhetoric of empowerment consistently served to legitimate the concentration of governance in the hands of platform owners. His 2013
To Save Everything, Click Here named the governing ideology of Silicon Valley:
solutionism—the reflexive conversion of every human experience into a technical problem awaiting its fix—and argued that this ideology was not merely mistaken but politically dangerous, systematically depoliticizing questions that were inherently political by recasting them as engineering challenges. A decade later, the same analysis applies with greater force: AI has