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While Google’s AI may no longer recommend eating rocks or confidently telling users to put glue on their pizza, even cutting-edge AI chatbots remain staggeringly incompetent at dispensing medical advice.
In a new study published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers asked 21 frontier large language models (LLMs) to “play doctor” when confronted with realistic symptoms that an actual patient could feasibly ask about.
The results painted a damning picture. The AIs’ failure rates exceeded 80 percent when provided with given ambiguous symptoms that could match more than one condition, and for more straightforward cases that included including physical exam findings and lab results, they still failed 40 percent of the time. The researchers also found that unlike human clinicians, the “LLMs collapse prematurely onto single answers,” resulting in “weak performance” across all models.
“Despite continued improvements, off-the-shelf large language models are not ready for unsupervised clinical-grade deployment,” said corresponding author and Massachusetts General Hospital associate chair of innovation and commercialization Marc Succi in a statement. “Differential diagnoses are central to clinical reasoning and underlie the ‘art of medicine’ that AI cannot currently replicate,” he added.
Translated into the real world, an AI that leaps to conclusions when not represented with the full picture could have devastating consequences.Say, if a person were to ask a chatbot about a rash or a sudden onset cough, they may be presented with misleading information and potentially dangerous advice.
The results highlight the considerable risks of relying on AI for live-or-die health advice, a worrying trend that’s already playing out across the country. As a recent survey by the West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America found, one in four American adults — the equivalent of 66 million people — are already asking ChatGPT and other chatbots like it for medical advice.
Respondents often said they were seeking information both before and after seeing a healthcare professional. In many cases, they’re foregoing seeking real-world medical assistance entirely after talking to a chatbot. Among those who asked AI for health advice, 14 percent — the equivalent of over nine million Americans — said they never saw a provider they would’ve otherwise seen if it weren’t for the tech.
According to the survey, 27 percent said they didn’t want to pay for a doctor’s visit as a reason for consulting AI, while 14 percent said they were unable to pay for one. Some participants said they didn’t have time or ability to visit a doctor.
“Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how Americans seek health information, make decisions and engage with providers, and health systems must keep pace,” said West Health Policy Center president Tim Lash in a statement.
Taken together, the two studies paint a damning picture of the current healthcare landscape in the US. Not only are millions of Americans heavily relying on AI tools, they’re frequently being presented with flawed advice by hallucinating LLMs — and choosing not to seek help from far more knowledgeable professionals.
Even if the information they’re giving is wrong, AI is giving patients a sense of certainty. Almost half of respondents in the latest survey said that talking to a chatbot about medical problems had made them feel more confident when talking to a provider, 22 percent said it helped them identify issues earlier, and 19 percent said it allowed them to avoid unnecessary tests or procedures.
At the same time, many Americans remain highly skeptical of AI’s medical advice. Roughly a third of participants who said they consulted AI for health issues said they distrusted the tool. One in ten respondents said the AI gave them potentially unsafe advice.
I’m a senior editor at Futurism, where I edit and write about NASA and the private space sector, as well as topics ranging from SETI and artificial intelligence to tech and medical policy.
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For years now, a thriving cottage industry in China has been offering families the opportunity to speak to an AI clone of their deceased loved ones — for a monthly fee, of course.
But what if the surviving member of the family isn’t clued in to the fact that they’re speaking with an AI representation, rather than their actual loved one?
According to the South China Morning Post, which quotes reporting from a Chinese news outlet calledLitchi News, the octogenarian mother of a man who was killed in a road accident has been unknowingly talking to his AI clone via regular video calls, thinking it’s actually him.
The woman is reportedly suffering from heart disease. Her family, who resides in Shandong province, “hoped to conceal the news” of her only child’s death, per the SCMP.
It’s a tragic story of grief in the age of AI, when the tech is making inroads toward replicating the appearance and voice of the dead. At the same time, the ruse raises thorny ethical questions when it comes to eldercare. Should we really intentionally deceive seniors to protect them from their own emotions?
The woman’s grandson reportedly reached out to an AI tech businessman, providing him with pictures, videos, and audio recordings of his recently deceased father. For his part, the AI businessmen joked to Litchi News that he’s in the business of “deceiving people’s emotions,” also saying that “what we do is to comfort the living.”
The AI clone informed the woman that her son had moved and was unable to meet her in the flesh.
“You should call me more often so that I know whether you live well or not in another city,” the unsuspecting mother told the AI, as quoted by the SCMP. “I am missing you so much. I feel so sorry that I cannot see you in person.”
“OK, mum,” the AI replied. “But I am too busy. I cannot talk to you for a long time. You take care of yourself. When I have made enough money, I will return home to pay my filial piety to you.”
Though the story is perfectly believable, forgive us for harboring some degree of skepticism. While Litchi News does appear to exist — it seems to be owned by the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation, China’s third largest TV network — we were unable to locate the original story or independently verify Zhang’s claims.
Regardles, netizens were appalled by the story, arguing that the woman’s family had gone too far.
“This is one of the worst likely uses of AI,” one Reddit user commented.
“This is going to harm this woman more than the truth,” another user added.
I’m a senior editor at Futurism, where I edit and write about NASA and the private space sector, as well as topics ranging from SETI and artificial intelligence to tech and medical policy.
Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/BEAST to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. #ad Joanna Coles welcomes back psychologist Dr. John Gartner as the conversation takes a chilling turn, with Dr. Gartner arguing that Donald Trump has crossed from grandiosity into full-blown psychosis, pointing to a barrage of erratic late-night posts—including AI images portraying himself as Jesus—as evidence of a manic, delusional spiral unfolding in real time. Dr. Gartner lays out a stark clinical case, connecting sleep disruption, cognitive decline, and escalating “messianic” fantasies to dangerous decision-making on the global stage, from impulsive foreign policy moves to a growing appetite for conflict. What emerges is a portrait of a leader increasingly detached from reality, alienating his own base while doubling down on grandiose claims, as insiders scramble, critics demand cognitive testing, and the stakes climb toward something far more consequential than political controversy. 00:00 – Trump’s Extreme Grandiosity 04:30 – Psychotic Diagnosis & Delusions of Grandeur Explained 08:55 – Behavior, Reality Loss & Dementia Signs 13:30 – Cognitive Tests, MOCA & What Doctors Look For 18:00 – War Obsession, Iran Decisions & Dangerous Impulses 22:25 – 25th Amendment Talk & Fears of Escalation
