Think back to Maya history when the rulers kept astronomy knowledge secret to pretend they were Gods and had control over celestial objects. If expensive education and publishing access provides power to someone and free education and publishing becomes a thread to their authority, that’s not a good testimony on how they used their education advantage while they had it.

AI may be destroying truth by creating collective schizophrenia and backing different people’s delusions, or by being trained to create rage-bait for clicks, or by introducing vulnerabilities on critical software and hardware infrastructure. But if institutions feel threatened, their best bet is to become higher levels of abstraction, or to dig deeper into where they are truly deeply needed - providing transparency and research into all angles and weaknesses and abuses of AI models. Then surfacing how to make education more reliably scalable if AI is used.