This week it emerged that someone in Russia used ChatGPT to build a think tank that doesn’t exist — fake experts, stolen research, an official-looking index, all of it convincing, none of it real. In this segment we look forward, calmly, at what it means now that AI has removed the old cost of faking authority: why the danger isn’t just more lies but a collapse of trust in the real institutions the fakes imitate, why becoming cynical is the trap rather than the solution, and the small, learnable human habits — a slower hand, a quick check — that matter more than ever when credibility can be printed on demand.
