A more imminent and real risk than the Singularity is that within one to two decades, most of what we read on social media and the internet will be AI-generated, we will not know what is real, and society will fragment as AI systems are optimized to feed users content matching their existing beliefs, while autocratic states and populist politicians exploit AI-generated disinformation.

forecastpending

Speaker

Michael Waldridge

Evidence Quote

we are heading into a world where basically within a decade two decades think at the most um pretty much everything we read uh and see on social media and the internet is going to be AI generated and we're not going to know what's real and what isn't real

Source

Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI HistoryJohnathan Bi
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:08:35 AM

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