Comment by neilv

Understood, but I meant to ask about the more general problem -- not specific to Google, only prompted by that quote.

(Also, to be clear about my examples: I don't think Google is fabricating their dissertation research, nor do I think Google is genocidal.)

If you're suggesting there's a lot of humility, yet "But we can do it!" still works, that's great, and I'd be interested in more nuances of that.