AI Shrinks Experts' Intellectual Power

AI tools (on phones and browsers) will let ordinary users get concise, technically grounded assessments of specialist claims, making it cheaper to compare competing expert arguments and exposing oversold or low‑quality expertise. That undermines what the article calls 'intellectual market power'—experts' ability to extract influence because audiences cannot cheaply verify or compare claims. — If true, this shifts where authority and credibility sit across media, science, and politics, altering how experts are rewarded, how misinformation spreads, and how institutions govern truth claims.