AI-generated summaries are becoming increasingly prevalent—from news article previews to workplace meeting transcriptions to high-stakes settings like police body camera footage—despite studies showing that AI can generate misleading or inaccurate information.
A new study from a team of researchers at Georgetown University and the University of Washington suggests that when prompted to summarize a video, AI systems that produce incorrect information can manipulate people's memory and perceptions of truth.
The study, "AI-Enabled Human Memory Manipulation: Misleading AI-Generated Summaries Distort Human Memory," was published on the preprint server arXiv and will be presented at the Ninth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES), taking place in October 2026.
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