“A brilliant meditation on life after the end of reality. The Future of Truth explores what happens when every image, voice, and fact can be fabricated. Rosenbaum maps the collapse of shared perception and, against the odds, shows how we might still find our way back to trust and meaning.”
– Nicholas Thompson
CEO of The Atlantic and author of The Running Ground

We live in a G-Zero world where trust between nations has collapsed. Steve Rosenbaum shows that trust is collapsing inside them, too, as the technologies we built to connect us are also fracturing reality itself. When citizens no longer inhabit a shared reality, the social fabric frays, markets fail, and democracy falters. The Future of Truth is a bracing look at a crisis that’s already here.
– Ian Bremmer
President of Eurasia Group; author of The Power of Crisis

What makes this book different is its balance of tech insight, philosophical depth, and grounded urgency. The Future of Truth asks hard questions not just about AI, but about us.
– Daniel H. Pink
Author of Drive, When, and The Power of Regret

“The Future of Truth is the guide we need right now. Rosenbaum warns of a coming AI era that risks diminishing our own agency and distorting our shared reality in new and dangerous ways. But he also spotlights the people doing the hard work of rebuilding shared truth from the ground up. Sharp, urgent, and genuinely hopeful.”
Jeremy Heimans, co-author of New Power

“Rosenbaum challenges us to face reality with honesty and urgency. This is why The Future of Truth matters. He asks us to think about how truth can be protected and rebuilt at a time when lies are rewarded. This is not just a journalism problem. It is not just a media problem. It is the existential problem of our democracies. If we cannot agree on what is real, then we cannot solve the challenges that threaten our very survival, from climate change to inequality to war.”
– Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate; CEO and cofounder of Rappler

Back in 2017 when I published Fantasyland—a history of Americans’ chronic blurring of fiction and reality and how the internet turned a manageable centuries-long chronic condition into an acute and potentially fatal social illness—we’d just elected our first fact-indifferent president. Five more years passed before AI became a factor in the centuries-long struggle to distinguish truth from falsehood. The Future of Truth is a smart, wise, essential addition to the conversation as we go further into this civilizational crossroads. Thank you, Steve Rosenbaum.
– Kurt Andersen
Author of Fantasyland and Evil Geniuses; cofounder of Spy magazine

The internet has steadily changed everything around us: who we know; how we meet; how we work; how we date; how we play; who gets famous; whom we trust; what we want; and who we want to be. In Rosenbaum’s journey into The Future of Truth, he takes us inside a world where those shifts collide with systems built to manipulate attention and shape belief. He shows how our reality is being rewritten in real time, what’s driving that change, and why understanding it is the only way to rebuild trust. It’s a clear, grounded look at the information landscape we all live in now — and the one we’re heading toward.
– Taylor Lorez
Author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet, Reporter: User MAG

Truth is the ultimate currency and not attention. But in order to monetize attention and to influence behavior, trust is under attack on a number of fronts—from science, where data and facts are seen as malleable, to government, where integrity and a resonance with reality are seen as weakness. If one can believe everything, one believes nothing—and that is the risk we face. This book illuminates how AI could accelerate the erosion of trust if we do not, as a society, take it seriously, and provides ways to avoid this catastrophe. While this book is called The Future of Truth, it is written with an intensity that recognizes there is no real future without truth.

– Rishad Tobaccowala
Author of Restoring the Soul of Business; former Chief Growth Officer at Publicis Groupe

The problem facing humanity in the digital age, we learn from Steve Rosenbaum in his swift, comprehensive, and extremely lucid The Future of Truth, is that tech has exacerbated untruth at a scale and speed hitherto unimaginable. In only 20 years, social media has disrupted democracy and public health worldwide by platforming and coalescing misinformation and disinformation toward a calamitous Post-Truth Age. Rosenbaum and his sparkling galaxy of thinkers lead us through AI’s many applications – healthcare, finance, emotional health, economics, human employment, art, and identity itself—to survey astonishing benefits and ominous unintended consequences, especially in early days when the guardrails are few and ethical conduct thoroughly subordinated to the profit motive.
Bob Garfield
Media critic, author, and cohost emeritus of On the Media

“As someone who’s lived on the front lines of innovation, I know that true disruption strikes at the heart of how we define what’s real. With unflinching clarity, The Future of Truth exposes how the technologies shaping our tomorrow are already reprogramming reality. Steven Rosenbaum’s book is essential reading for anyone who wants to not only understand the coming disruptions to knowledge and democracy, but to harness them for positive change. In a world saturated by algorithmic noise, this work is the signal.”
– Jay Samit
Bestselling author of Disrupt You! and The Second Act Advantage

“Reality, fact, fiction, information, disinformation, technology, platforms, virtual—these are all fast-moving and fast-changing concepts. No one knows how they’re evolving and how each impacts the other more than Steve. If you want to know where the world is today and where it’s heading tomorrow, this is the way to do it.”
– Bradley Tusk
Founder and CEO, Tusk Ventures; author of The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics

“In The Future of Truth, Steve Rosenbaum takes a deep, and at times dark, look at what art means in an age when truth itself is uncertain. His exploration of ownership, authorship, and the uneasy collaboration between humans and AI is unsettling. The questions he raises about how artists will make a living and what originality even means now are complicated, sometimes painful, but necessary. Through it all, Rosenbaum keeps sight of one powerful idea: that art’s worth lies not in perfection, but in its ability to express the messy, imperfect, deeply human truths that no machine can touch.”
– Ava Seave
Author: The Curse of the Mogul, Principal: Quantum Media