Published August 2026 · 700 responses · five platforms
Ask AI the Way a Person Would, and the Warning Disappears
What five AI platforms say about fourteen federal dollar figures
Three of five AI platforms cited no sources across 420 responses. Asked for a 2026 federal tax figure with the year stated, they flagged their own uncertainty three times in four. Asked the way a practitioner asks, that fell to one in four.
No firm is measured in this study. The rated party is the platform, and the ground truth is the federal record itself.