Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
Jul 05, 2026
I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google
"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding father
s turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence.
Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to check on the status of a draft, who takes a photo and uses AI to transcribe it into a Google Doc. Franklin and Adams hop in to make edits in suggestion mode, Gemini finds them a meeting time, takes notes during a Google Meet call, and then Nano Banana whips up a seal for the United States featuring a turkey ( …
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