The information age is nothing new (for us), neither is media culture generally, or even silicon valley. AI will now be some new part of the complex.

It seems obvious to me that a significant step to combat this effect would be not calling the thing "artificial intelligence". I like the term gpt because it is descriptive and accurate. Gpt doesn't suggest in any sense that we can rely on the thing or are comparable, in the same way "cell phone" doesn't. Imagine if we really bought into the idea that phones are truth receivers, or called them the closest friend. But that seems to be the idea with AI.

Keep speaking up too. Just calling bullshit on the thing implicitly gives people permission to turn it off. The tech will not cause knowledge collapse among a population that doesn't need it. I do use it by the way, eg GitHub Copilot which is nice.