Overview
- Multiple outlets report that searches linking President Donald Trump to dementia show no AI Overview, and AI Mode typically returns only a list of links.
- Similar queries about President Joe Biden may produce a summarized response in AI Mode that stresses the lack of public proof, despite no AI Overview on the main results page.
- Searches about former President Barack Obama’s cognitive health generate AI summaries stating there is no public evidence of dementia, highlighting uneven treatment across names.
- Google told reporters that AI Overviews and AI Mode do not reply to every query and added that its systems are not always consistent, sometimes showing links for topics such as current events.
- Coverage notes recent legal context for Google and YouTube, including a reported $24.5 million settlement tied to Trump’s account suspension, though Google has not linked this to the search behavior.