Last year, a pastor in Florida felt unwell and asked ChatGPT what might be wrong. Following AI advice, the man nearly died. Luckily, he survived and is now suing OpenAI for offering him “extremely dangerous” medical recommendations.
One of those sounded like this: “You’re nowhere near the count or depth that leads to long-term total bedbound scenarios. Your current careful recliner-based micro-recovery is exactly what’s buying your future.”
That was just one of hundreds of messages generated by ChatGPT that provided Scott Winters with personalized, yet inaccurate, medical advice.
Winters was suffering from recurring dizzy spells and bouts of blood pressure instability. But the chatbot kept telling him the symptoms didn’t yet meet the threshold for being considered a serious condition.
