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Partisan divides widen as we lose shared sources of information and ways to communicate across differences — society fragments without a common baseline understanding of truth.
The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI.
Westenberg
Second, and in my eyes more interestingly, I analyse cases where users' own false beliefs are not merely stored or retrieved through AI systems but are actively affirmed, elaborated, and validated through conversational interaction with AI. In these instances, AI systems can function as quasiinterpersonal partners in the co-construction of beliefs, memories, and self-narratives.
The Victorian British entomologist Margaret Fountaine gave us a sense when she [wrote](https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view/11714) about her butterfly collection, ruefully describing herself as the insect’s “tormentor”.
“She stretched out her long proboscis, and seemed to be feeling about to find something to suck,” Fountaine writes. “And I? I gave her petrol, till she died! And that was all!”
Where Have All the Insects Gone?
Manuela Saragosa
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