They’ll Use AI to Erode Reality. We Must Use It to Anchor Shared Truth.

Thanks to AI, regimes don’t need to persuade — they only need to pollute.

By Trygve Olson

This is the fourth in a seven-part series: AI vs. Autocracy: Seven Lessons in the New Battle for Democracy.

Authoritarian regimes don’t just lie.

They destroy the idea that truth can be known at all — until people stop trusting what they see, hear, or even feel.

They don’t need you to believe the regime.
They just need you to stop believing a…