How to know if you can trust an AI’s answer to your question

Can you trust AI’s answer to your question? Here's what to consider

I recently typed a simple question into Google search: How much screen time is too much for teenagers? Instead of presenting links, as Google had been doing for many years, it gave me an AI-generated answer. The artificial intelligence agent cited a number, then complicated that reply, noting that quality and balance of time could matter more than the number of hours, and that “too much” time could depend on a teenager’s sleep, exercise, school …

How to know if you can trust an AI’s answer to your question

It might be useful to sort AI answers into an ‘answer typography’ of four broad types: factual, interpretive, constructive, and strategic