CONCEPT
Die Kehre (The Turning)
Heidegger's name for <em>the turning that the essence of technology undergoes when the danger is seen as the danger</em> — an event of Being, not a human achievement.
The Kehre, variously translated as 'turn' or 'turning,' names the event in which the Ge-stell, having extended itself to its furthest reach, reveals itself as Ge-stell and is thereby transformed. Heidegger insisted the turning is not a human achievement — not produced by effort, planning, or policy. It is an event in the history of Being: a moment when the frame becomes visible as a frame, and this visibility alters the relationship between the frame and those who stand within it. The turning is not inevitable; it is a possibility whose realization depends on the quality of attention human beings bring to the danger they inhabit. The AI moment is potentially such a turning, because the Ge-stell has reached comprehensiveness so total that it has become visible in a way it was not before.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Heidegger used 'die Kehre' in two related senses. First, as the shift within his own thinking from the early transcendental analytic of Dasein to the later,