Gloria Mark — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Gloria Mark — On AI. 20 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
AI Practice Framework
The Berkeley researchers' prescription for the AI-augmented workplace — structured pauses, sequenced workflows, protected human-only time, behavioral training alongside technical training — the operational counterpart to Maslach's fix-the-…
Attention Residue Accumulation
Sophie Leroy 's 2009 finding that a portion of cognitive capacity remains allocated to a prior task when attention switches — and Mark's demonstration that the residue accumulates across a workday of fragmented engagement, producing measu…
Auto-Exploitation
The Gramscian-Hanian condition in which the subject exploits herself and calls it freedom — the overseer's function having been transferred from the factory floor to the interior of the self through decades of hegemonic cultural work.
Closure Design
Mark's prescriptive framework for incorporating natural endpoints into AI-augmented workflows — addressing the structural absence of completion signals that causes attention residue to accumulate continuously rather than dissipate between …
Cognitive Debt
The MIT Media Lab's 2025 term — built directly on Mark's attention-span data — for the long-term mental cost of outsourcing cognitive work to AI: benefit delivered now, capacity borrowed against future judgment.
Deep Work
Newport's term for professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes cognitive capabilities to their limit — creating new value, improving skill, and resisting easy replication.
Default Mode Network
The brain system that activates when focused task demand subsides — the substrate of mind-wandering, self-referential processing, and the associative integration from which spontaneous creativity arises.
Flow or Fragmentation
The central diagnostic question Mark's framework poses to AI-augmented work: whether the subjective experience of absorption reported by builders is Csikszentmihalyi's flow — restorative and sustainable — or screen-based fragmentation…
Forty-Seven Seconds
Gloria Mark 's empirical measurement of the average duration a knowledge worker sustains attention on a single screen — down from two and a half minutes in 2004, and the number that anchors her AI-era diagnosis.
Imagination-to-Artifact Ratio
Segal's term for the gap between what a person can conceive and what they can produce — which AI collapsed to approximately the length of a conversation, and which Gopnik's framework reveals to be an exploitation metric that leaves the exp…
Kinetic vs Potential Attention
Mark's distinction between attention actively engaged with a task and cognitive resources held in reserve — recovering, consolidating, preparing for the next bout — with the healthy workday requiring alternation between the two.
Task Seepage
The mechanism — documented in the Berkeley study of AI workplace adoption — by which AI-accelerated work colonizes previously protected temporal spaces, converting every pause into an opportunity for productive engagement.
Temporal Architecture
Mark's structural prescription for the deliberate shaping of the workday into distinct cognitive modes — focused engagement, collaborative interaction, unstructured time — as the environmental scaffolding within which sustainable AI-augmen…
The Judgment Economy
The economic regime that emerges when the cost of execution approaches zero and the premium on deciding what to execute rises correspondingly — the Smithian reading of the Orange Pill moment.
The Berkeley Study
Ye and Ranganathan's 2026 Harvard Business Review ethnography of AI in an organization — the empirical documentation of task seepage and work intensification that prospect theory predicts.
The Orange Pill (book)
Edo Segal's 2026 book on the Claude Code moment — the empirical and narrative ground on which this Whitehead volume builds its philosophical reading.
Byung-Chul Han
Korean-German philosopher (b. 1959) whose diagnoses of smoothness, transparency, and achievement society provide the critical idiom within which Groys's AI analysis operates — and against which Groys's emphasis on institutional frame offers…
Edo Segal
Builder, entrepreneur, and author of The Orange Pill — whose human-AI collaboration with Claude, described in that book and extended in this volume, provides the empirical ground for the Whiteheadian reading.
