I’ve been thinking a lot lately about truth. Not in some philosophical, navel-gazing way, but in a very practical sense: how do we know what’s real anymore?

There’s been quite a bit of discussion online about an AI safety researcher resigning from Anthropic, warning that the world is “in peril.” And while my first instinct was to roll my eyes at yet another doom-and-gloom headline, the more I read about it, the more the knot in my stomach tightened.