Distaste for Big Tech is one of the few headline topics on which my conservative mother and I agree. We sit at her kitchen table, trying to outdo each other with hell-in-a-handbasket reports.Everyone at the restaurant was on their phones! Well, did you hear about the restaurant where people can have dinner with AI dates?Or tech companies forcing regular people to foot the electricity bills for their environment-destroying data centers!Every time I hit reply, Gmail generates a response written in “my voice”—and every time, I delete it, instead choosing the unexpected word, the random anecdote, always trying to throw AI off my track. I don’t read the notes AI sends me after meetings, don’t want my son going to AI with relationship questions someday, don’t want AI making military decisions. I