Source: The American Conservative
by James P Pinkerton
“Four years from now comes the hundredth anniversary of one of the most momentous events in American history: the stock market crash that began on ‘Black Thursday,’ October 24, 1929, and was followed, of course, by the Great Depression. Historians and other scribblers will help us to recall those events. As always, they will spin them in keeping with their own mental maps. Yet now there’s a new motive force, with its own motives: artificial intelligence (AI). … By common agreement, AI is going to affect everything. And because AI is so all-encompassing, it’s already proving to be a subtle but steady advocate for liberalism. This can be illustrated through a single case study, presented here: how Google AI answers questions about the Crash and the Depression, aiding the related causes of Democratic victory, federal aggrandizement, and lefty [sic] teleology.” (10/22/25)