“Analysis: Can we trust AI with our health, our hearts or our sanity? Not yet at least, not without supervision”

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https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/1124/1545495-health-medical-advice-ai-chatbot-chatgpt

Dr ChatGPT will see you now: how AI could be bad for your health
Updated / Monday, 24 Nov 2025 12:30

Nearly four out of five people say they'd use ChatGPT to self-diagnose a medical condition. Photo: Getty Images

Analysis: Can we trust AI with our health, our hearts or our sanity? Not yet at least, not without supervision
By Celina Caroto and Anthony Kelly, University of Limerick

 

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The bigger problem here is that it's not ChatGPT vs regular high-quality care, it's usually ChatGPT vs. an array of possibilities that include gaslighting and negligence.

By comparison with quality health care, of course competent professional health care is better. But it's not just not always the case to get it, but the availability of professional health care is atrocious. Which makes most comparisons completely unfair. Like comparing dumpster diving with fine dining, as if fine dining was the only alternative to digging in dumpsters for food that may still be good, or available at a comparable price, and so on.

In a race between a normal person and a star athlete, you expect the athlete to win every time. But if the comparison is for at any one time, including when the athlete is sleeping, or drunk, or sick, well, the comparison changes a lot. Availability is also important, and so is upholding the standards of medicine, which rarely happens the way it should.