This is very far from blogging about baseball & election stats, and shows the insatiable urge to stay relevant means Nate Silver has strayed into areas (AI policy) in which he has no professional experience.

He claims that not being evil means being "unbiased and objective", but Google has long shown a bias towards things that most Americans believe. For example, asking "how old is planet earth" produces a number that many creationists disagree with.

Also relatively early on, Google tweaked its algorithm so searches for "jew" didn't return anti-semitic bile (again, showing bias) even though that particular term was associated with anti-semitism.