“trust is flickering”

Knowledge flows at the speed of trust, I wrote in 2022, further stating that when trust is lost, knowledge fails to flow. This happens in organizations. It also happens at a societal level. Networks of trust are what create value at all levels for human society. The onslaught of generative AI and large language models is destroying our trust in much of the information that informs our knowledge. My last post on organizational knowledge was based on an article that was written with the help of AI. It was only through my trusted human knowledge network that I found out. Not only did I lose trust in the author but I think I eroded the trust of my readers here. I will have to be more careful if I continue to blog here and I am wondering what the future of my writing will be. Andrew Trickett wrote in what the enlightenment can teach us — “We don’t often think about trust until it’s gone — rather like electricity. The moment the lights flicker, we realise everything depended on it. And…