Hans Jonas — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Hans Jonas — On AI. 12 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.
Consciousness
The quality of subjective experience — being aware, being something it is like to be — and the single deepest unanswered question in both philosophy of mind and AI.
Flow State
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's name for the condition of optimal human engagement — and, in Wiener's framework, the subjective signature of a well-regulated negative feedback system.
Responsibility for the Not-Yet-Born
Jonas's insistence that the most affected parties in any decision about powerful technology are the generations who will inherit its consequences — parties with no vote, no voice, and no capacity to participate in the decisions that shape …
The Asymmetry of the Wager
Jonas's extension of Pascal's wager to the technological age: when the bold strategy risks irreversible harm and the cautious strategy risks only deferred benefit, rational self-interest demands priority for the worse outcome regardless of prob…
The Ethics of Self-Limitation
Jonas's demand for the deliberate decision to leave power unexercised — the highest moral achievement available to a civilization that possesses unprecedented capability, and the hardest virtue to sustain under structural pressure.
The Heuristics of Fear
Jonas's methodological principle that in conditions of genuine uncertainty about powerful action, the worse prognosis must be given priority — not because it is more likely, but because its consequences may be irreversible.
The Technological Imperative
Jonas's diagnosis of the structural tendency of technological capability to convert itself into obligation — the silent transformation of 'we can' into 'we must' through competitive, economic, and institutional pressures no single actor co…
The Twelve-Year-Old's Question
Segal's scene of the child who asks 'What am I for?' — received by Jonas's framework as the paradigmatic moral claim of the technological age, the voice of the generation that will bear consequences it cannot consent to.
The Vocation of the Builder
The Weberian-Jonasian claim that building powerful tools is a calling with built-in moral obligations — responsibilities constitutive of the activity itself, not added to it from outside.
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
Serial entrepreneur and technologist whose The Orange Pill (2026) provides the phenomenological account — the confession over the Atlantic — that Pang's framework diagnoses and treats.