The article amounts to little more than subversion in normal speech under surveillance, it's not as if Google can't read and make at least some limited sense of

The article amounts to little more than subversion in normal speech under surveillance, it's not as if Google can't read and make at least some limited sense of most of things you do or say during your interactions with it. You can point gaping holes in that behavior but the fact is that Google has you by the balls in terms of the data it's collecting on you and as time passes it will get better at making sense of lots of it, even if you can subvert it easily enough. Maybe it's hinting that going forward the cognoscenti should exercise this sort of subversive speech to confuse the AI. Machines thinking for humans was one of the hypotheses in Yuval Noah Harari's book Homo Deus, he calls it dataism. To me it seems to be a recipe for how can corporations can wrestle control of thinking from human beings to render them into mere drones. This seems to be on the agenda of the Silicon Valley elites as they have seemingly adopted him as their pet historian/philosopher. May you live in interesting times. I have been thinking about this and it seems that it could work but I don't see how it could work considering that there is always a conflict of interest between what corporations want and what an individual or a business wants. So in a world where you have agents that belong to you and are required by law as through fiduciary duty to follow your interests it's possible for such agents to exist. But it will never work if Google or Facebook owns these agents or the data on which the agents make their decisions without transparency. Also see Autofac episode of Electric Dreams on Amazon Prime Video: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6902176/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6902176/