A balance scale sitting perfectly level: a tall stack of peer-reviewed books on one pan, a single small megaphone on the other — the visual of false balance.

How to Stop AI From Lying to You With "Balance"

Everyone worries about AI making things up or refusing to answer. The trickier failure is the calm, balanced-sounding answer that treats settled science and bad-faith contrarianism as a coin flip. Here’s how to spot it and ask your way past it.

June 18, 2026 · 7 min · Dan Hopkins