STAT News – Biotech
Opinion: The AI push in health care is deepening medicine’s trust crisis
After OpenAI and Anthropic launched dedicated health care initiatives in January, a study published in February found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health had a 50% error rate, incorrectly recommending that care be delayed in emergency test cases half the time.
That error rate, which was not identified before the app was rolled out, is a symptom of a broader problem: the rapid adoption of AI systems by health care systems and insurers, often skipping essential testing to determine how well these systems work and how safe they are for patients. This push to expand AI in health care is intensifying an existing trust crisis.