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Humanity is entering a dizzying era in which truth, once the pillar of civilization and the foundation of social trust, dissolves in a digital fog of simulacs.
By generating texts, images and videos of a striking realism, artificial intelligence profoundly upsets our relationship to reality. The true and false intertwine to such an extent that our own senses become suspicious, weakening the very foundations of knowledge.
It is no longer only disinformation that threatens our societies, but the gradual disappearance of the collective belief in the existence of an objectivable truth. When anything can be simulated, falsified or reconfigured, the very notion of proof loses its strength.
This episode analyses this major anthropological shift: the transition from a real-structured world to a world dominated by the probable, and questions the political, social and cognitive consequences of this change for contemporary democracies.
