These tools predict answers based on patterns, which can lead to confident but incomplete or incorrect advice.

When researchers asked about raw milk, vaccines and alternative cancer treatments, they found some problematic answers.

A new study found that about half of AI answers to health questions were problematic and some could be harmful. The tools often sounded confident even when they were wrong, which is especially risky ...

When it comes to answering medical questions, can ChatGPT do a better job than human doctors? It appears to be possible, according to the results of a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, ...

Amazon is launching a health-focused artificial intelligence chatbot for members of its One Medical primary care chain, the tech giant said Wednesday. The Health AI assistant uses One Medical members’ ...

SurvivorNet has debuted My Health Questions, an AI-driven platform embedded within the site designed to give people with cancer better answers to their treatment questions. The platform works by ...

This is the year that many parties using generative artificial intelligence will try to give the programs something resembling knowledge. They will mostly do so using a rapidly expanding effort called ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jesse Pines is an expert in healthcare innovation and wellness. Every day, millions of Americans use artificial intelligence tools ...

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Guadalupe Hayes-Mota is director, bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. This article, "AI Can Answer Medical Questions—But Only Ethics Can Make It Profitable" , ...

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