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Why We Must Resist AI’s Soft Mind Control | When I tried to work out how Google’s Gemini tool thinks, I discovered instead how it wants me to think.

When I tried to work out how Google’s Gemini tool thinks, I discovered instead how it wants me to think.

However, it was willing to present arguments for removing statues of John C. Calhoun, a champion of pro-slavery interests in the antebellum Senate, and of Woodrow Wilson, whose troubled legacy on racial politics has come to taint his presidential reputation. The very scale of its ambitions might reasonably prompt concerns, for example, about integrating Google’s technology into so many American public-school classrooms; in school districts across the country, it is a major platform for email, the delivery of digital instruction, and more. After visiting the United States in the 1830s, the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville diagnosed one of the most insidious modern threats to democracy: not some absolute dictator but a bureaucratic blob.

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