NASA and Papa John's Are Using the Same AI. Nobody's Asking If That's a Problem.

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge At Google Cloud Next '26, Thomas Kurian stood on a stage in Las Vegas and declared: "The era of the pilot is over. The era of the agent is here." The crowd loved it. I'm a student entering tech, and I found it unsettling. Not because AI agents are inherently bad. Not because I think Google is lying. But because in the same keynote — sometimes in the same breath — we were told that agentic AI is being deployed at NASA's Artemis II f