The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

On the 29th June 2026 - if you searched for Jim Carrey on Google, you would have been presented with a Knowledge Panel stating that he had died the previous day. The panel included a date of death and a biography written in the past tense.

For most people who would have seen this, it may have come as a shock - some may have even believed it - but for me, what I saw was a canary in the coal mine. It was a visible failure mode of a knowledge system that I have been thinking about for a while now.