“The repair will not come simply from making machines more humanlike or more truthful. It will come from redesigning institutions, and from norms for our own use of these tools, so that AI can help process speech without displacing the human responsibility that gives speech its civic force. That redesign is achievable, but it requires first understanding exactly what is breaking, and why the dominant responses to AI risk will not fix it.”

Deb Roy, Cortico Co-Founder & CEO
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
September 9, 2026

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