Google and the drunken robot dilemma

Google is heading into troubled waters: at its latest presentation, Google I/O, it announced the incorporation of results from its generative algorithm, Gemini, into its search results using what it calls “AI Overviews.”

As of May 14, many millions of the search engine’s users in the United States began receiving Gemini answers as part of their results pages, and many millions more will soon begin to…