In the ongoing effort to close the distance between human intention and machine execution, Google has unveiled a suite of AI-powered advertising tools that transform campaign management from a labor of data retrieval into something resembling dialogue. Announced in August 2026, the tools allow marketers to pose questions in plain language and receive visual reports, performance explanations, and strategic recommendations in return. At its core, this is a wager on a particular vision of human-machine collaboration — one where the complexity of digital advertising is absorbed by the system, leav