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This reconfiguration\u2014made possible by AI systems capable of synthesizing the global scientific consensus in natural language\u2014constitutes what I call the Intention Turn in epistemic access. A crucial clarification distinguishes this turn from previous democratizing technologies. The printing press democratized access to recorded information. The internet democratized access to raw information at scale. AI democratizes something categorically different: access to the synthesis and understanding of that information. I situate this argument within Miranda Fricker\u2019s framework of distributive epistemic injustice, proposing a corrective inversion: where existing scholarship documents how AI perpetuates epistemic injustice, I argue that AI enables the first scalable mechanism capable of producing a partial distributive epistemic correction\u2014a historically significant, if fragile and conditional, shift in who can access the epistemic commons. 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