Shaili Gupta often sees patients who consult chatbots like ChatGPT for health advice. She finds that some of her patients are ...

Dr. Rodman is the director of A.I. programs for the Carl J. Shapiro Center for Education and Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. As a practicing physician, I know that my ...

Subtle shifts in how users described symptoms to AI chatbots led to dramatically different, sometimes dangerous medical advice.

Some doctors regularly see patients who have consulted an A.I. model for a first opinion. Surveys have found that about one ...

Many of us already use generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT for health advice. They give quick, confident and personalized answers, and the experience can feel more private ...

It found people using AI for health reasons found it hard to identify what advice they should trust.

Consulting AI for medical advice can have deadly consequences. A 60-year-old man was hospitalized with severe psychiatric symptoms — plus some physical ones too, including intense thirst and ...

AI-generated health advice can be dangerous and should never replace guidance from a licensed medical professional. AI chatbots may deliver outdated, misleading, or overly generic health information.

In the corners of social media dominated by wellness content, influencers recommend an assortment of treatments and products to support weight loss, fight exhaustion or promote other desired health ...

To evaluate whether health information you’ve found online is reliable, you can consider its sources, evaluate it for bias, and check it against what trustworthy sources are saying on the topic.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In the corners of social media dominated by ...