The word behest has appeared in 201 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 1 in “What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood?” by Devin Gordon:
I spoke with more than two dozen people across the industry for this article and discovered that while there’s no shortage of A.I. optimists in the movie industry, they’re often reluctant to share that sentiment out loud for fear of seeming to side with the machines, or appearing too sanguine about a technology that everyone agrees will cost some people their jobs. There were also a couple of occasions when an eager early adopter scheduled an interview, only to cancel at the last minute at the behest of skittish corporate overseers.
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