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This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent – Spark – from my colleagues David Pierce<\/a> and Jay Peters<\/a>. Their takeaways are similar: It’s so effective that it’s scary. Spark knew that David’s dog is named Frida and knew the first name of Jay’s wife, even though neither of them explicitly provided this information to Google. But what’s scary to me <\/em>is how all of this stuff seems geared toward a future of “productivity” that completely misses what needs to be fixed in our world.<\/p>\n

“Productivity” is often pitched as a panacea for what befalls us in our personal lives, even going so far as to implicate our moral worthiness \u2026<\/p>\n

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