I asked google why smart people do dumb things, here is what it's AI answered. Socrates had come up in earlier answer.

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7. Swede, did your prompt include a request for what (Greek) philosophers would say? Same query just

now got ZERO mention of philosophy or amathia.

Typed this into Google

why do smart people do dumb things

and got an AI summary beginning

AI Overview
Smart people do dumb things due to overconfidence, amplified confirmation bias, emotional vulnerability, or a focus on complex analysis over practical wisdom, leading them to ignore red flags or rationalize poor choices, even when they're skilled at logic;
they often overcomplicate things, trust their own reasoning too much, or suffer from "mindware gaps" where they lack real-world experience, making them prone to errors that less "intelligent" but more critically-thinking individuals might avoid.
This video explains some reasons why intelligent people fall for foolish ideas:

Cognitive Biases & Overconfidence
Overconfidence:
A lifetime of success can breed an unflappable faith in one's own smarts, leading to risk-taking or ignoring help.
Confirmation Bias:
Smart people can become experts at justifying beliefs, even flawed ones, by finding data to support them and ignoring contradictory facts, notes this Reddit thread.

and continuing on for several more paragraphs, with no resemblance to the answer you got.

As I've explained often here, genAI is not actually intelligent or reasoning, and it can provide an endless array of different responses to the same prompt. Most people are aware of this because of the neverending options image generators can offer from a single prompt, but the same is true of AI-generated text, and the responses can be wildly contradictory.

It's also possible you said something the AI responded to that led it to bring up Greek philosophy. That could have been in the prompt, but could also have been in an earlier Google search.

Whatever the reason you got such a different answer, the most important thing about AI Overview is that it, like other AI search summaries, is extremely harmful to the web, since Google has scraped the info from websites that are losing traffic because of AI search. Sometimes it provides links to where it found that info, but not always. Perplexity AI, for instance, has been known to provide nearly exact copies of articles, then bury the link to the actual article at the bottom of a list of unimportant websites that referred to the article. A Google X account bragged about a recipe stolen from a website recently, with no link at all to the website: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220836210

Please don't use AI summaries. They're destroying websites, exploiting them to make AI companies and AI bros richer and more powerful.

I just quoted AI Overview here to show you how different that response was to the one you got.