Opinion: Moving fast, breaking the world. AI risks shattering our shared reality.

Artificial intelligence is here: writing paragraphs, generating images, mimicking voices, shaping what billions of people see each day, whether it is true or not.

As I watch this era unfold, I feel something familiar — the uneasy sense that power is accelerating far faster than wisdom.

I felt it again watching filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-nominated retelling of Frankenstein. The film feels less like nostalgia than recognition. Certain stories return when civilization reaches a threshold.