Re: The single most important thing AI can do...
AI didn't render the Internet unusable. We did that. Years ago. AI is just a face of authority that makes us trust garbage we find on line.
Anecdote: Many years ago, I went looking for the origins of a quote I had heard in an old movie. But could not remember the source of. Various search engines place the origin in a movie released in 1997. But I can clearly remember it from my days in high school, several decades earlier. The search engines are quite authoritative, giving the above date more often than not as its origin. Instead of "first use found".
Sorry. Bing, Google and even Alta Vista have enshitified our knowledge base.