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An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
If you accessed the Google search engine on Election Day in 2018, you were probably amused and delighted to see the words “Go Vote” where the word “Google” usually is. Perhaps you even said to yourself, “What a great public service Google is performing!”
Robert Epstein, Ph.D., former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, is a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology. A Ph.D. of Harvard University, he has published 15 books and more than 300 articles on AI and other topics. His 2019 Congressional testimony on Big Tech’s threat to democracy can be accessed at EpsteinTestimony.com. You can learn more about his research on online influence at MyGoogleResearch.com.
