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The end of truth: artificial intelligence and doubt

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The end of truth: artificial intelligence and doubt
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Artificial intelligence is not just a technical innovation: it acts as a mirror to our civilizations and our relationship to truth.

Where the printing press had increased access to knowledge without abolishing the effort necessary to make it a thought, the AI introduced a more radical break: for the first time, it became possible to delegate not only the labour force, but a significant part of the work of the mind.

So the question is not whether AI is useful. — She is — But what we become when the architecture of knowledge is rebuilt around the suppression of effort, friction and slowness. These elements have always been the heart of learning and the formation of critical thinking.

This episode questions the contemporary shift towards a world where doubt is no longer a motor of thought but a consequence of the loss of landmarks, and where truth, diluted in generated flows, becomes increasingly difficult to discern.

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