If you’re looking for something new to argue about at the dinner table, might we suggest AI? Chances are, you won’t have to search very far for source material. As the popularity of tools like ChatGPT and Gemini grows—the former surpassed TIkTok to become the most downloaded free app of 2025—so do the number of people taking them to restaurants. Many use AI to choose their wine, even if a sommelier is standing right there. “Once I started seeing it, I never stopped seeing it,” says Christian Urbina, the head sommelier at The Dabney in Washington, D.C. “It’s not only younger guests, it’s everyone. You can immediately tell when people are sitting at a table typing into ChatGPT.” Depending on who you ask, deploying AI to pick out wine either makes perfect sense or none at all. Adherents say these platforms remove social friction and help democratize wine.…