Google programmatically determines that a page contains a >likely answer to the user's question, and displays the result as a featured >snippet.
They disclose that they use their programming to find pages and not which part of the page, this means every page on the internet is processed for "useful information"
This is what they call artificial intelligence but there is actually no such thing and never will be. AI is just more complicated functions and programs that are still controlled by its writer.
Who gets to determine what is useful, I think we all know how things deliberately left out, can change the message entirely. A half truth is still a whole lie. I agree that AI can also be manipulated in several ways; either through programming, but also by manipulating the information it gets to process. Greetings!