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Ivo Vegter discusses the implications of AI on privacy and the potential epistemic crisis it may cause.

The next wave of AI will not only change how we work, it will change what we believe. When deepfakes get plausible, citations can be fabricated, and “evidence” can be manufactured at scale, the real threat becomes an epistemic crisis: a slow collapse of shared reality where even experts struggle to verify what is true. We sit down with freelance journalist Ivo Vegter to talk honestly about that risk, and why the fix is not panic but disciplined source checking, clearer provenance, and a retur...

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