Slide 1 Science in the Face of the Post-Truth Condition The intellectual problem What happens to knowing under the post-truth condition? Small footer: Francis Remedios · October 2026 Roundtable Slide 2 From truth to authority EPISTEMIC CRISIS What counts as true? ↓ LEGITIMATION CRISIS Who has legitimate authority to establish knowledge? Slide 3 Democratization of knowledge Who gets to participate? Internet + Social Media Production • Circulation • Interpretation • Challenge ↓ Authority becomes more diffuse, contested, and difficult to resolve. Slide 4 Four ways of understanding post-truth 01 — Epistemic crisis What counts as true? 02 — Legitimation crisis Who has authority? 03 — Democratization Who participates? 04 — AI What happens to the knower? Slide 5 The distinctive claim AI does not have to become a knower in order to transform knowing Inquiry · Judgment · Explanation · Decision-making ↓ AI changes the conditions of human knowing. Slide 6 The question for the panel What does it mean to be a knower when our cognitive activities are increasingly mediated by AI? <br> TRUTH → AUTHORITY → PARTICIPATION → KNOWER
Slide 1
Science in the Face of the Post-Truth Condition
The intellectual problem
What happens to knowing under the post-truth condition?
Small footer:
Francis Remedios · October 2026 Roundtable
Slide 2
From truth to authority
EPISTEMIC CRISIS
What counts as true?
↓
LEGITIMATION CRISIS
Who has legitimate authority to establish knowledge?
Slide 3
Democratization of knowledge
Who gets to participate?
Internet + Social Media
Production
• Circulation
• Interpretation
• Challenge
↓
Authority becomes more diffuse, contested, and difficult to resolve.
Slide 4
Four ways of understanding post-truth
01 — Epistemic crisis
What counts as true?
02 — Legitimation crisis
Who has authority?
03 — Democratization
Who participates?
04 — AI
What happens to the knower?
Slide 5
The distinctive claim
AI does not have to become a knower
in order to transform knowing
Inquiry · Judgment · Explanation · Decision-making
↓
AI changes the conditions of human knowing.
Slide 6
The question for the panel
What does it mean to be a knower
when our cognitive activities are increasingly mediated by AI?
<br>
TRUTH → AUTHORITY → PARTICIPATION → KNOWER
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This exploration delves into the post-truth condition, framing it as an intellectual challenge where truth is supplanted by authority and various interpretations are mapped. It examines the reconfiguration of knowledge through internet participation and the complexities of contested authority, highlighting AI-mediated inquiry as a key example. Finally, it reassesses the role of the human knower, emphasizing how AI alters our understanding of knowledge, judgment, and decision-making, urging a...