The newest creation in artificial intelligence is here, and it will do everything possible to make sure you are shielded from reality, for your own good. Google’s long-awaited and much-hyped Gemini program was rolled out earlier this week to great fanfare. It was then greeted with even greater horror and bemusement from users, once it was discovered that Gemini was hilariously, appallingly, and ominously woke.

One might be reluctant to credit such a criticism as anything other than right-wing hyperbole, given how it has long been a pastime of bored online conservatives to toy with AI programs, getting them to say comically wicked things. (Guilty as charged.) But no, the insufferable, suffocatingly paternalistic wokeness and naked political bias of Google’s Gemini is a next-order phenomenon, one that bodes ill for the future simply because of the size and market power of Google itself. For the informational future that Silicon Valley’s biggest giant intends for us openly and proudly beckons with Gemini — and it is one not just where reality is happily bent to serve the whims of modern DEI obsessions but where certain matters are simply no longer up for discussion, or even acknowledgeable as real. Make no mistake: Google intends this program to shape our understanding of the world.