By Futurist Thomas Frey
By 2040, every form of media—video, voice, image, and text—has achieved near-perfect synthesis through artificial intelligence. Human-created and AI-generated content are no longer distinguishable, not even by experts or machines. But the real crisis isn’t deepfakes. We expected those. The true catastrophe is epistemological: authentic content can no longer be proven authentic. The fabric of trust that underpins civilization—law, relationships, governance, and communication—has quietly unraveled. Every video could be fake. Every voice call could be simulated. Every document could be machine-written. And in a world where fabrication is flawless, reality itself becomes…. negotiable.
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