> suggests that the solicitous, authoritative tone that AI models take—combined with them being legitimately helpful and correct in many cases—could lead people to place too much trust in the technology.

Haven't there been reports lately that people don't trust the news? I'd think that the search engines' AI models would suffer the same fate given similar levels of accuracy.

> No one person, or even government, can tamper with every link displayed by Google or Bing.

Well, Google or Bing can.