AI could reverse social media’s worst consequence

Several AI applications can be seen on a smartphone screen, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, and DeepSeek. | Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images

For more than four decades, technological progress has been undermining expert authority, democratizing public debate, and steering individuals toward ever-more bespoke conceptions of reality.

In the mid-20th century, the high costs of television production — and physical limitations of the broadcast spectrum ...