Trust

AI-Generated Disinformation and the Trust Crisis

The disinformation challenge that occupied most of my attention until recently – the deliberate production and dissemination of false information by human actors – has been joined by a challenge that is qualitatively different and, in certain respects, more dangerous.

AI-generated disinformation – synthetic text, images, audio, and video produced by machine learning systems – changes the economics of deception in a way that undermines not just the accuracy of specific claims but the epistemic infrastructure on which journalism depends.

The Safe House Was a Kitchen Table

I want to correct a misconception about networks that has become pervasive in the digital age. The misconception is that networks are technological.

They are not. Networks are human. Technology is a tool that networks use, but the network itself – its resilience, its capacity, its trustworthiness – is a function of the human relationships at its core.

I know this because every network I built was centered on a kitchen table.