Google just turned YouTube into an AI chatbot, with a new ‘Ask YouTube’ feature that finds the perfect video

• Google has announced a new feature called ‘Ask YouTube’
• This lets you ask lengthy and detailed questions when looking for a video
• It uses Gemini, and makes the service a bit more like a chatbot

Google I/O 2026 is now underway, and among the many announcements emerging from the California-set showcase, Google has revealed ‘Ask YouTube’ — a feature that adds conversational AI to the popular video streaming platform.

With Ask YouTube, rather than searching for a specific video the old-fashioned way, you can ask complex and lengthy questions, and Gemini will serve up specific videos that it thinks best answer your query. Helpfully, you’ll be sent directly to the relevant part of the videos in question, too, rather than having to skim through them.