Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI “Holy crap!” you may be saying right now. “The prompt was hologram MAGA Jesus, and GPT-4 thinks the antidote is ‘crit- ical thinking’?” Unfortunately, when it comes to ensuring that truth has a future, the simple answer is that there are no simple answers. But, optimist that I am, I see at least three clear steps we can take to help preserve society’s capacity for truth-seeking: 1) Truth-seeking institutions must learn to work faster. 2) Truth-seeking institutions must engage audiences better. 3) Truth-seeking institutions must “flood the zone” with truth. The common denominator in achieving these steps? I believe it’s AI. Accelerate the presses! Ask a journalist the value that most shapes their work and there’s a good chance they’ll say “accuracy” (especially if they’re talking on the record). But there’s a reason journalism is often described as “the first rough draft of history”: in journalism, as in many industries, speed matters. Whether journalists are reporting on wars, political campaigns, weather events, market conditions, or an extremely popular new restaurant, they’re forever battling the clock to gather information as quickly as they can to deliver some working theory of the truth to their audiences. Sometimes, this imperative of speed means that journalists’ rough drafts of history are rough indeed. Context goes missing. Important aspects of a story have not yet surfaced. 80