New Delhi: US President Donald Trump’s health has always been a subject of persistent scrutiny, despite repeated assurances from White House that he is in excellent health and fit to serve. Now, a Forbes investigation has raised questions about the medical letter released by the White House, alleging it was AI-generated.
“The White House appears to have found another way to puff up the president’s health records: AI,” according to Forbes. “Forbes ran that letter through Pangram, an AI text detector that claims over 99.5 per cent accuracy for its latest version.”
While one can’t trust AI fully. Forbes also ran two other letters written in April 2025 and another in May 2026. For both, the AI detector showed 45 per cent and 35 per cent scores, respectively.
And it’s not only the medical letter. Forbes has examined thousands of press releases from the last three presidential elections and has alleged that the use of “AI has skyrocketed” in White House official communications.
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‘AI’s influence seems to be growing’
Since Trump became President for the second time, Forbes has examined the White House press releases. To be sure, they have also scanned the releases before Trump’s second term till 2020 — before ChatGPT made its debut in 2022.
“The results suggest that AI has found regular work in the Trump White House press office. Pangram classified about 10 per cent of the second Trump administration’s press releases as either AI-written (at least 80 per cent AI text) or mixed (over 10 per cent AI text),” the Forbes report states. “It’s not running the show, but AI’s influence seems to be growing. That rate jumps to 18 per cent for the 2026 release.”
Political Communications Professor Lindsey Cormack told Forbes that the usage of AI in White House communications was “inevitable.”
“Look at every other executive and look at their AI uptick in the last two years versus who preceded them, and I imagine you see the same pretty much across every industry,” she said.
But AI is only a portion of the Trump administration’s public communications.
“Of 2,864 examined from 2023 and 2024, the years after ChatGPT was first released, only three releases from the Biden administration were flagged by Pangram as ‘Mixed’. None were classified as AI-written,” Cormack said.
(Edited by Saptak Datta)