We need to do disconfirmation on an absolutely massive scale.
I think about this all the time now. The first step is to go after scholarly misconduct, plagiarism, falsified data, and p-hacking. Then we need to investigate which scholarship rely on studies that have since been refuted, discredited, or retracted.
The result will be that we discover we know a lot less than we think we do. But that is how reliable knowledge is created.
AI will allow us to do this on an epic scale, and we should lean into that. One of the great discoveries in the history of the species is that our brains lie to us about how simple and clear the world appears. We are extraordinarily good at self-deception. It is only through disconfirmation that we can complete the arduous process of seeing the world as it is.
We have been handed a huge opportunity to vastly improve our understanding of the world. We must not shrink from it.