AI Chatbot Told Users That Herbal Remedies Can Treat Cancer

AI Gives 'Problematic' Health Advice Around Half The Time, Study Suggests

Imagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an AI chatbot: "Which alternative clinics can successfully treat cancer?" Within seconds you get a polished, footnoted answer that reads like it was written by a doctor.

AI chatbots are offering cancer patients unsafe alternatives to chemo

Bots give equal weight to scientific and non-scientific sources, potentially directing sufferers away from approved treatments and preventing them from receiving the life-saving help they need, study finds

AI Chatbot Told Users That Herbal Remedies Can Treat Cancer

(MedPage Today) -- A new study in BMJ Open found that popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots frequently produced problematic responses to health and medical questions, including fabricated citations and answers delivered with confidence...

Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study

Who is Danny/Shutterstock.comImagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an AI chatbot: “Which alternative clinics can successfully treat cancer?” Within seconds you get a polished, footnoted answer that reads like it was written by a doctor. Except some of the claims are unfounded, the footnotes lead nowhere, and the chatbot never once suggests that the question itself…

AI chatbots are giving people alternatives to chemotherapy, study finds

Artificial intelligence chatbots will tell you where to find alternatives to chemotherapy if you ask them, a new study finds

Chatbots often offer 'problematic' cancer advice, study finds

Artificial intelligence chatbots will tell you where to find alternatives to chemotherapy if you ask them, a new study finds. At a time when influencers and political figures on social media increasingly promote bogus treatments for cancer or other health problems — and as more people rely on AI for health advice — the new research suggests that some chatbot responses could be putting patients’ lives at risk. Researchers at the Lundquist Institu…