{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-31T07:34:14.590Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"ai-search-summary","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"contextual","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-patient-says-doctor-read-google-ai-search-summary-for-a-diagnosis-then-called-to-say-the-patient-was-right-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'one of my appointments, where a doctor pulled up Google on his computer, said, “Let’s ask Dr. Google,” and read the summary at the top of the page without clicking through to any of the sources'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author wrote that at one of their appointments a doctor pulled up Google on his computer, said \"Let's ask Dr. Google,\" and read the summary at the top of the page without clicking through to any of the sources.","causal_attribution":"Author's first-person account of the appointment."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Google a diagnosis, and read me the AI summary at the top of the results'; 'Spoiler alert: He was actually wrong.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In a Bluesky post linking the article, the author described the doctor as Googling a diagnosis and reading them the AI summary at the top of the results, and wrote that he was actually wrong.","causal_attribution":"The author identifies the summary as AI-generated and the doctor's answer as wrong; what the summary said is not described, so whether the error lay in the summary itself or in the doctor's reading of it is not established."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'To his credit, he did call me to say I was right after I emailed to push back and essentially say, “I think you’re wrong, here are my sources. What am I missing?”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author wrote that the doctor called to say they were right after they emailed to push back, saying in effect that he was wrong and giving their sources.","causal_attribution":"Author's account of the correction."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I’d be 100% lying if I said that I wasn’t nervous to hit send on the emails to the doctors to question their diagnoses'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author wrote that they were nervous to send the emails questioning the doctors' diagnoses.","causal_attribution":"The author describes this for both diagnosis disputes in the article, only one of which involved the AI summary."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I definitely used AI when I was researching this diagnosis. But I didn’t just go with the first response Claude gave me'; 'I used Gemini to do deeper research and had it try to find holes in what Claude told me'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The author wrote that they used Claude and Gemini to research the diagnosis, cross-checked them against other sources and read the cited sources themselves.","causal_attribution":"Context: the author's own AI-assisted research is how they challenged the doctor."}],"effects":[{"label":"a doctor's answer on a diagnosis, read from an AI search summary, that the doctor later agreed was wrong (author's account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"nervousness at emailing the doctors to question their diagnoses (author's account)","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the author researched the diagnosis with Claude and Gemini and read the cited sources (author's account)","claim_id":"c5","direction":"neutral"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/lets-ask-dr-google-blind-trust-ai-baba28829c6a","kind":"personal_blog","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-31. medium.com returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher and the Wayback Machine had no capture, so the full article text was read from the author's own Medium RSS feed (HTTP 200), which carries the complete article dated 26 October 2026.","independence_group":"author-dr-google-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/sarahdoody.bsky.social/post/3mz3w5eavmk23","kind":"social_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-31 through the public Bluesky API (post, thread with no replies, and the author's feed, HTTP 200). Same author as the article, so not independent of it.","independence_group":"author-dr-google-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use","own_use"],"contexts":["health"],"unknowns":["What the AI summary said, what diagnosis was at issue, and whether the error lay in the summary or in the doctor's reading of it.","When the appointment took place; the article (26 October 2026) gives no date, and the Bluesky post of 30 October 2026 does not either.","Which Google feature produced the summary; the author calls it the AI summary at the top of the results.","Whether the wrong answer affected any treatment before it was corrected.","Where the appointment took place."],"geography":{"basis":"The article and the post do not say where the appointment took place or where the author lives.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a contextual case: the author says a doctor answered a diagnosis question by reading Google's AI search summary aloud during the appointment, that the answer was wrong, and that the doctor agreed after the author pushed back with sources. First-person account, low severity.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-31"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The author writes that during their appointment a doctor searched Google for a diagnosis and read them the AI-generated summary at the top of the results without opening any sources, and that the doctor's answer was wrong; after the author emailed sources, the doctor called to say the author was right. The output was used in the doctor's answer to the patient. What the summary said is not described.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["informed_decision_about"]},"name":"First-person account: patient says a doctor read Google's AI search summary for a diagnosis and later called to say the patient was right","summary":"In an article published on Medium on 26 October 2026 and a Bluesky post on 30 October, a writer says that at one appointment a doctor said \"Let's ask Dr. Google\", searched for a diagnosis and read the AI summary at the top of the results without opening any sources. The writer says the doctor was wrong; after they emailed him their sources and asked what they were missing, he called to say they were right. They say they were nervous to send the emails, and that their own research used Claude and Gemini, cross-checked against the cited sources. The article does not say what the summary said, what the diagnosis was, or when the appointment took place.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-26","aiSystem":"AI-generated summary at the top of Google search results, as described by the patient; feature name not given","aiProduct":"Google Search AI summary (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The author says a doctor gave them a wrong answer on a diagnosis after reading Google's AI search summary aloud, and that they had to research and nervously challenge it by email before the doctor agreed (first-person account; no effect on treatment is reported).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the author, the patient about whom the doctor used the AI summary; the author was not the AI user.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"assistant","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/lets-ask-dr-google-blind-trust-ai-baba28829c6a","primarySourceLabel":"Medium (Bootcamp), 26 Oct 2026: \"Let’s ask Dr. Google: The risk of blind trust in AI\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-31T03:25:14.801466+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-31T03:25:14.801466+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","blog","bluesky","health","clinician","ai-search-summary"]}]}