How the Internet Can Rebuild Trust in the Age of AI
The early internet carried a utopian promise — an open arena where knowledge could be freely exchanged, debated, corrected, and improved. Platforms thrived on their transparency, and communities felt empowered to shape the digital public sphere. But as artificial intelligence, opaque algorithms, and for-profit recommendation systems dominate the modern era, that foundation of openness has deteriorated. The global network that once invited collaboration now fuels confusion, polarization, and mistrust at a scale unprecedented in human communication. This rewritten analysis explores how the internet can recover its moral architecture, how artificial intelligence complicates truth itself, and what structural transparency, independence, and … Read more