All right Google, I’ll give this one to you. This is pretty great.
Google releases Workspace ad showing the Founding Fathers using Docs, Gemini, and eSignatures for the Declaration of Independence
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Google just dropped a 65-second spot that swaps quills for Gemini as the Founding Fathers wrangle the Declaration into shape using Docs, Calendar, Meet and eSignatures, timed for the America 250 anniversary window and shared by Sundar Pichai.
Existing tools get the spotlight
The ad showcases Docs version history, AI-assisted edits, scheduling prompts and Meet interfaces that are already available to Workspace users, with no new product releases or feature additions tied to the campaign.
Campaign window leaves details open
The video surfaced around July 2 with no further information released on production choices, rollout scope or how the broader America 250 effort will unfold beyond this single spot.
Many users praise the Google Workspace ad reimagining the Declaration of Independence with Docs and Gemini as excellent and clever, while some call it disrespectful to history or criticize Google.
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cute ad, killer founding team
All right Google, I’ll give this one to you. This is pretty great.

Definitely fun! Unfortunately, it perpetuates the unverified assertion that it was Benjamin Franklin who replaced the words “sacred and undeniable” in the draft Declaration with the phrase “self-evident.” Christians and non-Christians alike have seized on this unsubstantiated story to either praise or attack the Declaration. Non-Christians use it to praise the Founders for allegedly replacing the Bible and religion with unassisted human reason, and some Christians have condemned the change for the same reason. In truth, there is no solid evidence of who proposed the different wording (the editor of the papers of Thomas Jefferson, thought it was Jefferson). More importantly, there is also no evidence that the new phrase was regarded by anyone as a substantive change, let alone a dismissal of Christian revelation.

@megbasham “John you’re on mute“ 🤣

@StephenLimbaugh But it was the founding fathers making turkey mascots Stephen 😂

@megbasham Samuel Adams: “Can we settle this over a beer?”

@megbasham They would have turned over the founding fathers to the monarchy first chance they got.

@megbasham @SDegidon If you tried to organize a revolution using google products today, the FBI would have you in cuffs the next day

@megbasham

@megbasham Above googles standards. Must have been some rouge employees that will be fired for this.

@megbasham Thanks, Gemini.

@megbasham I have been very impressed this year with favorable and credible tributes to our founding. I do believe that if Donald Trump were not president, we would not be seeing these things. And I don’t mean that he is making this happen, but his presence is influential.

@megbasham Especially fun after watching the musical 1776 yesterday.

@megbasham Google would censor and report the Founding Fathers without a doubt. Google has zero patriotism and is a tool of destruction for western civilization.

@megbasham expected to hate it, but it is pretty darn good

Yes! Within the intellectual world of Founding Fathers; James Wilson, John Witherspoon and the metaphysics of Thomas Reid (whose work was so foundational to them), ‘self-evident’ did not mean ‘true because I personally think so’. It referred to first principles immediately apprehended by common sense - the Aristotle/Aquinas inheritance of the Founders own scholastic education, in which reason was understood as a faculty operating within a created order - not independently of it. Under which reason discovers the created order - it does not create it. ‘Self-evident’ and ‘endowed by their Creator’ are complementary and consonant, not contradictory. That is why the Declaration immediately grounds rights not in human reason but in ‘the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God’ and in humanity’s being “created equal” (essential created nature) and ‘endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights’ due to that created nature. The argument is not confessional, despite it remaining explicitly theistic - and this is what I’ve found modern education has no known category for, making it hard to speak about because we lack the language to do so. It’s been off the table in schools and higher ed for so long!

@megbasham @Heminator The thing I don’t like about it is they’d be arrested for treason immediately if they tried this in Google Docs today.
Google would be helping the British identify traitors.

@megbasham I typically hate AI ads and AI promotion, but I enjoyed this :-)

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@megbasham I absolutely loved that ad despite it being corny as hell.