Regulating AI Chatbots is Imperative to Patient Safety in Healthcare

• Unregulated use of LLM-based chatbots in healthcare poses inherent risks, necessitating the development of new frameworks for patient safety.
• Integration of LLMs with search engines may increase user confidence but also leads to the potential for dangerous information being provided.
• Current LLM-based chatbots lack essential principles for AI in healthcare, requiring better accuracy, safety, and clinical efficacy demonstrated and approved by regulators.

LLM-based generative chat tools, such as ChatGPT and Google’s MedPaLM, show great promise in the medical field. However, the unregulated use of AI chatbots poses inherent risks. A recent article delves into the urgent international issue of regulating Large Language Models (LLMs) in general and specifically within healthcare. Professor Stephen Gilbert, an Medical...

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