# Misinformation Is Being Fought at the Wrong Layer by Bryant McGill > “A society that fights misinformation at the level of content while deploying AI systems that cannot distinguish testimony from fact, belief from knowledge, experience from attribution, and cultural acceptance from evidence is solving the wrong problem at the wrong layer.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Epistemic Invariance in Conversational AI, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Original authored source:** [[articles/Epistemic Invariance in Conversational AI|Epistemic Invariance in Conversational AI]] (October 1, 2026). - **Exact marked source:** “A society that fights misinformation at the level of content while deploying AI systems that cannot distinguish testimony from fact, belief from knowledge, experience from attribution, and cultural acceptance from evidence is solving the wrong problem at the wrong layer.” - **Editorial treatment:** The Reminder reproduces the complete rendered extraction surface without alteration. - **Context:** The article moves the misinformation problem beneath individual outputs to the machine's upstream classification of testimony, knowledge, attribution and evidence. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/Epistemic Invariance in Conversational AI|Epistemic Invariance in Conversational AI]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Epistemology|Machine Epistemology]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Machine Epistemology|Machine Epistemology]] - [[wiki/Public Epistemic Capacity|Public Epistemic Capacity]] - [[wiki/Citizen AI Literacy|Citizen AI Literacy]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A society that fights misinformation at the level of content while deploying AI systems that cannot distinguish testimony from fact, belief from knowledge, experience from attribution, and cultural acceptance from evidence is solving the wrong problem at the wrong layer.” — Bryant McGill, Epistemic Invariance in Conversational AI, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-misinformation-wrong-layer ```