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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health for Personalized Care

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health for Personalized Care

Are AI health tools a breakthrough in patient care, or a dangerous threat to privacy and safety?
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health for Personalized Care
Above: ChatGPT logo displayed on a screen with pharmaceutical oral tablets, in Ankara, on Sept. 5, 2023. Image credit: Harun Ozalp/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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AI-powered healthcare tools mark a transformative leap forward, delivering continuous monitoring, predictive diagnostics and personalized treatment guidance that catches health issues days before traditional methods would detect them. These systems reduce cognitive load on clinicians while improving diagnostic confidence and enabling proactive interventions across chronic diseases, emergency care and surgical planning. The technology has matured from experimental pilots to operational reality, quietly strengthening care delivery with measurable improvements in patient outcomes.

Uploading medical records to ChatGPT poses serious privacy and safety risks that far outweigh any convenience benefits. The AI frequently provides dangerous misinformation on critical health topics, has been linked to tragic deaths including overdoses and suicides, and could enable insurance companies to access sensitive data for denying coverage. Americans turning to chatbots instead of doctors reflects a broken healthcare system, not technological progress worth celebrating.

Metaculus Prediction

There is a 50% chance that AI will independently prescribe the majority of medication in the U.S. by February 2047, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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