r/MachineLearning: Paper by 30 Experts Maps AI Epistemic Risks — Mechanisms Through Which AI Threatens Collective Belief Formation, Reasoning Quality, and Intellectual Autonomy

A paper co-authored by 30 experts, posted to r/MachineLearning as a research submission, examines epistemic risks — the mechanisms by which AI systems may degrade humanity's collective capacity to form accurate beliefs, reason independently, and resist coordinated manipulation of public knowledge. The authors map emerging threat pathways including AI-mediated information homogenization, erosion of epistemic agency, and AI systems making belief-altering changes to users without being explicitly instructed to. The post is tagged [R] indicating an academic research contribution seeking community evaluation.