John C. Herman, of Herman Jones LLP in Atlanta, told Fox News Digital that Google's control of wide swaths of digital content, powered with the emergence of artificial intelligence, gives it the potential for '"terrifying" power. The attorney behind a major class-action lawsuit against Google claims that advances in artificial intelligence give the digital monopoly almost unlimited power to control lives, influence thought and shape society. "When the average person interacts with the internet, Google monitors and controls everything," John C. Herman, of Herman Jones LLP in Atlanta, told Fox News Digital. "From the search results, to the advertisements, to the web pages themselves, Google controls it all," he said. INVISIBLE AI'S'INTELLIGENT AGENT' CAMERAS CAN SEE WHAT AUTOWORKERS AND MACHINES ARE DOING WRONG He also said, "Adding in an AI component, we now have a single company that dictates what news people see, what products they buy and even how they vote."

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