Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI

The founding fathers having a conference call with all of their cameras off via Google Meet, as if they wouldn’t be a bunch of stodgy Microsoft Teams users.

I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google

“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google’s collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence.

Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to check on the status of a draft, who takes a photo and uses AI to transcribe it into a Google Doc. Franklin and Adams hop in to make edits in suggestion mode, Gemini finds them a meeting time, takes notes during a Google Meet call, and then Nano Banana whips up a seal for the United States featuring a turkey ( …

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