Political polarization has become so extreme that when Democrats and Republicans find common ground on a single issue — like their shared hatred of AI data centers — it becomes major news.
But those same data centers could also be mending the nation’s political divisions. The large language models people increasingly rely on to understand the world are far from benign, but they are quietly — if unintentionally — promoting consensus in both how and what the public learns about the world. For better or worse.
It seems impossible to think that such a thing could happen. Research and ...