Maybe we don't know how do operate in this environment, because we don't really know how to collectively operate in any environment?

Humanity is, after all, crawling out of at least the last 3000 years of recorded history of rulers telling everyone else how to live, like it or not.

We've only really been doing this democracy thing semi-successfully for a handful of centuries.

In the overall scheme of things, we're still pretty new at not being ordered around by people stronger than us. It's a hard habit to break on both sides.

I have read your comment as we just have to accept this new environment and just ‘cope’ with it, whereas my feeling is we don’t have to accept it at all. I don’t want to cope with AI and question if what I see everyday is in fact real. Instead, anything produced by AI should have an asterisk next to it. But this is impossible to enforce, so verifying what’s real by default is the next best thing.