Artificial Intelligence
MobileDesktop
The Citations at the Bottom of the Stack
A 28-page investigation into how memorable claims become accepted facts, citations manufacture authority, research agendas and institutions shape what gets known, and attention systems amplify what spreads. Then the spotlight turns around: as AI makes verification, policy inspection, provenance tracing, and large-scale pattern detection cheaper, hidden asymmetries become harder to ignore. The question shifts from what we can know to what we choose to look at—and what kind of trust infrastructure our generation chooses to build.