I. Stephanie Boyce FKC, FRSA: “…the algorithms flatter our biases and fracture our public squares. And as trust collapses.”

“Power itself is becoming more diffuse, more unpredictable as control over these technologies is shifting from states to corporations and sometimes to individuals.” With truth being eroded and information increasingly weaponised, with falsehoods spreading faster than fact “dividing communities and distorting reality”.

“The foundations of trust in our societies are eroding … the algorithms flatter our biases and fracture our public squares. And as trust collapses, so does our shared sense of truth — one of the greatest losses a society can suffer,”.

Blaise Metreweli, the new head of MI6 has warned in her first public speech as reported by the Times Newspaper.

What is striking about this warning is not simply the scale of technological power, but the absence of corresponding accountability.

A society without a shared sense of truth cannot hold power to account, protect rights, or sustain trust. This is not a distant risk, it is a present challenge that demands leadership, accountability and collective responsibility to reclaim, integrity and truth itself.