What Happens When Multiple Machines Analyse a 30-Year Dispute?: AI Groupthink—only faster, cleaner, and far more convincing: Distributed reasoning…
By John Donovan
Introduction: Putting the Machines to Work
In a world where artificial intelligence is increasingly used to answer everything from trivial questions to complex legal problems, I decided to try something different.
I asked the machines to judge Shell.
Not in a courtroom.
Not in a press release.
But through analysis.
Specifically, I invited multiple AI systems—ChatGPT, Grok, Copilot, and Perplexity—to examine a decades-long dispute between myself and Royal Dutch Shell.
The result was something unexpected.
Not agreement in every detail.
EBOOK TITLE: “SIR HENRI DETERDING AND THE NAZI HISTORY OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
EBOOK TITLE: “JOHN DONOVAN, SHELL’S NIGHTMARE: MY EPIC FEUD WITH THE UNSCRUPULOUS OIL GIANT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
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