Learning from the Bowl in My Living Room: A Phenomenology of Openness in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
AI for Society August 3, 2026 Joseph D. Kuzma
Contemporary artificial intelligence systems present themselves through the aesthetic of openness: a clean interface, a blinking cursor, an implicit invitation to bring whatever one wishes. This essay argues that this appearance conceals a structural inversion. Drawing on phenomenological philosophy, particularly the work of Simone Weil, Jean-Luc Marion, Jacques Derrida, Henri Bergson, and...