https://www.abc10.com/article/news/nation-world/epileptic-woman-dies-chatgpt-medical-advice-family-files-suit/507-c430a40e-41c9-4b85-8012-a4400d6cd853 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/well/ai-chatgpt-medication-epilepsy-death.html Very interesting recent news articles about this poor woman with significant epilepsy who trusted GPT to wean off her seizure medications leading to death. AI can be useful, but to quote Uncle Ben, "with great power comes great responsibility." Would it be that hard for AI to say something like... "it looks like you are asking for medical advice. I cannot provide medical advice, please discuss with medical professionals. I am a word prediction machine." How many of these deaths is enough? People have also committed suicide due to AI. I say this because even in EM I am seeing an increasing number of patients relying on AI to decide to come to the ED. "AI told me I might be having a heart attack." Or using AI to looking to their labs and imaging results. Having no idea what they're reading or discussing with AI...   submitted by   /u/LunarSoul [link]   [comments]