Crisi degli esperti e disintermediazione. Una prospettiva tra filosofia e pedagogia

The essay examines the contemporary crisis of experts through the lens of digital disintermediation, showing how the proliferation of information sources, the rhetoric of immediacy, and the rise of AI have undermined the institutional networks that once sustained epistemic legitimacy. This shift destabilizes the traditional “regimes of expertise,” weakening intermediary 􀏔igures such as teachers, journalists, and communicators, and placing schools and universities under pressure as mediating institutions of knowledge. In education, the crisis intersects with neoliberal and individualistic trends that reduce knowledge to mere utility or self-directed consumption. The essay calls for rebuilding a renewed social pact around expertise and restoring the transformative role of human mediation against the illusion of frictionless, “double-click” knowledge.