Answered from Was populism worth it? · Today, Explained · 2026-11-03
Eric Levitz suggests AI might push slightly against populism. On social media, people with different politics draw on entirely different sources, but with AI they increasingly ask the same few models, recreating something like the shared information space of the three-network TV era. He adds that the models tend to track mainstream expert understanding, even Elon Musk's Grok, though AI will not stop a populist backlash against the tech oligarchy.
“With AI, people across the ideological spectrum are increasingly turning to the same, you know, three models, basically, to understand the world.” Eric Levitz · at 28:28 — open in the transcript →
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