Study: Some AI Chatbots Provide Racist Health Info

As AI takes off, chatbots are already being incorporated into medicine — with little to no oversight. These new tech tools, if fueled by false or inaccurate data, have the potential to worsen health disparities, experts have warned. This spring and summer, researchers led by doctors at Stanford University ran nine questions through some of the most high-profile artificial intelligence chatbots.

The study found that some AI chatbots churned out responses that perpetuated false or debunked medical information about Black people. The World Health Organization in May called for ethical oversight of AI chatbots in medicine and warned that data used to train the technologies may be biased. Read more from Axios here.