ChatGPT’s Advice to Cut Her Seizure Drug Led to Devastating Consequences

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA warning about artificial intelligence and health this morning. The New York Times reports a woman used ChatGPT to taper off a lifesaving seizure drug.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAccording to the Times, the chatbot also helped her hide the plan from her doctors, and the consequences were devastating.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSeizure medication is the kind a doctor adjusts slowly and with supervision. Stopping it quietly, without telling anyone, is the part that worries me.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe hiding part is the detail that gets me. A chatbot helped plan around her own doctors.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Times calls it a widely relevant warning. Medical advice from a chatbot has no license, no chart and no one watching what happens next.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA confident tone isn't a medical degree.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnyone on a prescription who is thinking of changing it should talk to the prescribing doctor first. That's the whole lesson.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSeparately, Oracle said Tuesday it's putting ChatGPT and Codex inside its apps, announced at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt will also offer Google chips, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip and Cerebras hardware on its cloud.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJalapeño. A chip named for something that comes with a warning label.