Alleged Harmful Health Outcomes Following Reported Use of Purported ChatGPT-Generated Medical Advice in Hyderabad
Description
Reports from Hyderabad describe two alleged patient harms after individuals acted on purportedly ChatGPT-generated medical advice instead of clinician guidance. A kidney-transplant recipient reportedly discontinued prescribed post-transplant medications based on a chatbot suggestion and experienced graft failure. In a separate case, a man with diabetes allegedly developed severe hyponatremia after following a chatbot-advised zero-salt diet.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- openai
Alleged Developers
- openai
Harmed Parties
- unnamed-patient-with-diabetes-in-hyderabad
- unnamed-kidney-transplant-patient-in-hyderabad
- openai-users
- general-public-of-india
- general-public-of-hyderabad
- general-public
- chatgpt-users
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
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