Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, a former Secretary of State for Tourism, discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on democracy at the Future Atlantic Forum. He argued that algorithms and digital platforms are creating information bubbles, fragmenting reality, and fostering political polarisation. Mesquita Nunes warned that the rise of generative AI and deepfakes threatens our shared perception of truth, potentially leading to a society where citizens only trust information that confirms their existing biases. He called for regulatory mechanisms to balance these digital systems without resorting to censorship, framing the challenge as a fundamental civilisational and ethical issue for modern democracies.