The Verge's David Pierce and Jay Peters test Google's new Gemini AI agent Spark, finding it impressively effective but concerning for its ability to access personal information users didn't explicitly share, raising questions about whether AI productivity advances address genuine human needs.

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This week we've got tandem hands-ons with Google's new Gemini AI agent - Spark - from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It's so effective that it's scary. Spark knew that David's dog is named Frida and knew the first name of Jay's wife, even though neither of them explicitly provided this information to Google. But what's scary to me is how all of this stuff seems geared toward a future of "productivity" that completely misses what needs to be fixed in our w