Consensus AI Adds Web Search to Councils

Web-grounded consensus is useful only when users inspect provenance; several models repeating the same retrieved report is correlated evidence, not independent confirmation.

• –Each council member can search separately and expose its queries and sources.
• –Source links make it easier to detect when apparent agreement comes from one shared report.
• –Blind, multi-model answers still help surface disagreement before synthesis.
• –Not every model supports web search yet, which makes council composition materially important.
• –Developers should treat the feature as evidence triage and source discovery, not a substitute for primary-source verification.