AI‑driven epistemic monoculture

AI platforms and massive investment in computational models can create a dominant, uniform way of knowing that flattens other forms of judgment, sensemaking and moral imagination. That dominance both amplifies short‑term instrumental gains and erodes the 'social soil' — trust, dialogue and shared reality — required for stable democracy and ecological stewardship. — If true, policy on AI, education and public funding should prioritize pluralistic knowledge systems and civic capacity-building, not only technical safeguards.