Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/googles-deepmind-is-building-an-ai-to-keep-us-from-hating-each-other/

The floor used to be… lively, you could call it. Noisy certainly. “Spirited discussions” would be one way of describing an average afternoon. It wasn’t surprising really. There were egos of course but also firmly held beliefs and passions. People were invested in their work and fought for it. They deeply believed they were right, that their position was right, that the other – even their boss was wrong. Great work had come out of those tensions, he remembered as he tried again to start a debate and the floor’s Diffuser kicked in with its soothing voice and its intelligent “solution”.