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OpenAI Opens ChatGPT to Your Medical Records One Day After a Pastor Sued, Saying Its Advice Nearly Killed Him
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OpenAI Opens ChatGPT to Your Medical Records One Day After a Pastor Sued, Saying Its Advice Nearly Killed Him

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About This Episode

OpenAI made Health in ChatGPT broadly available to US adults on Thursday, letting the chatbot read users' medical records and wearable data to give personalized health guidance. It launched one day after Scott Winters, a 55-year-old Florida pastor, sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT repeatedly told him not to seek care before a near-fatal pulmonary embolism.

Our Take

The Substitution Threshold says the cheapest reliable provider stops being human — but in American medicine the cheapest provider arrived years before the reliable one, and a Florida pastor's lawsuit is what that gap looks like from the inside.