The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality
In The Future of Truth, we go on a truth treasure hunt. Author, filmmaker, and media explorer Steven Rosenbaum sets out to understand how this is happening—and what comes next. What begins as a personal investigation becomes something stranger and more urgent: a story about systems captured, consensus collapsing, and humans caught in the digital crossfire.
In these pages, we’ll explore:
• How Truth is being bent, blurred, and synthesized, and how the ways we love, work, learn, and remember are changing—even history is no longer trusted
• Why institutions we recently trusted—medicine, education, justice, journalism—are collapsing under pressure of fast-moving, profit-driven AI
• What happens when war is waged with data, protests are hijacked by bots, and power hides behind precision algorithms
• How, in their hunger for clarity, robots erase Truth’s messy, beautiful middle, replacing it with something cold, confident, and designed to serve soulless AI, not the humans who built it
At the heart of the book are exclusive, provocative conversations with some of the most original thinkers of our time: wild-haired philosopher David Chalmers calls it “a simulated reality crisis.” Cultural provocateur Douglas Rushkoff says, “Truth has been coded for profit.” Legal legend Larry Lessig warns of “an attention economy built to distort.” AI truth-teller Gary Marcus sees “confidence without comprehension.” Gen Z literary leader Hailey Colborn, raised inside the feed, says “Truth isn’t something you find—it’s something you perform.” And futurists and reformers Juan Enriquez, Esther Dyson, Steve Fuller, and Eli Pariser each offer raw, urgent, and provocative visions on where Truth is headed—and whether we can still catch it before it falls off a cliff.
Part cultural investigation, part memoir, and part manifesto, The Future of Truth is a wild journey into the collapse—and the humans determined to rebuild Truth into something better, before AI rewrites reality without us.
AUTHOR
Steven Rosebaum is Executive Director of the Sustainable Media Center, a nonprofit where he works with researchers, policymakers, and Gen Z leaders to rebuild a healthier digital world. Rosenbaum has founded and scaled five media ventures, led the NYC Media Lab, and continues to be a public voice on technology’s impact on society. He is an Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker, and his earlier work includes Curation Nation and the acclaimed film 7 Days in September, based on the world-renowned CameraPlanet 9/11 archive, the largest collection of citizen journalism from 9/11. He and his producing partner and wife, Pamela Yoder, have donated the 1,000-hour collection to the New York Public Library. With a master’s degree from NYU’s Gallatin School focusing on truth, he is a recognized thought leader on issues related to media integrity, AI, and digital transformation. His insights are featured at leading conferences, including SXSW, TED, and Davos.
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