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If you’re anxious about a weird rash or sudden pain and you want information that’s accurate, easy to understand and tailored to you, where do you turn?
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Health tool is promising a personal experience. The company stresses it’s not meant to replace medical advice, but users will be able to link medical records, diagnostic imaging and test results, and data from smartphone apps.
ChatGPT will find you an answer – it’s what AI is designed to do. But as Julie Ayre and colleagues write, questions remain about the privacy, accuracy and safety of these responses.
The Conversation’s health articles aren’t personalised. We can’t access your medical records or analyse your X-ray. We don’t know what that weird lump is. But we do keep you, our reader, front of mind.
Most importantly, each article is written by a health expert and rigorously fact-checked by a team of editors. No dodgy answers here.
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Ruth McHugh-Dillon
Deputy Health Editor
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Julie Ayre, University of Sydney; Adam Dunn, University of Sydney; Kirsten McCaffery, University of Sydney
OpenAI’s new dedicated ‘health and wellness’ tool allows users to link medical records to chat. But it hasn’t been independently tested and will still make mistakes.
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Fay Anderson, Monash University
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the time – and how it changed journalism.
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Yaqoot Fatima, University of the Sunshine Coast; Danielle Wilson, University of the Sunshine Coast; Jasneek Chawla; Nisreen Aouira, University of the Sunshine Coast
Some parents may dread what’s coming – getting overtired, half-asleep kids out the door on time.
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Ramona Vijeyarasa, University of Technology Sydney
Without intervention, we risk hardcoding human misogyny into the digital infrastructure of everyday life.
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Angel Zhong, RMIT University
You don’t need to be a finance expert to help set your kids up with good money habits for life.
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Kerry Brown, Edith Cowan University
The standard minimum age for work in Australia is 15 – but children can get a job before that. These are the rules.
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Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Macquarie University; Michael B. Charles, Southern Cross University
Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city.
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Janet Hoek, University of Otago; J. Robert Branston, University of Bath; Philip Gendall, University of Otago
Taxes raise prices, and higher prices reduce smoking. But duty-free tobacco sales remain a policy anomaly and deny the government much-needed health revenue.
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Politics + Society
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Andrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University
Blaming Pretti’s death on the fact that he was carrying a gun contradicts the second amendment to the US constitution.
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Mark Shanahan, University of Surrey
Alex Pretti’s death has been met with global outrage. Mark Shanahan addresses the key issues and considers what it means for Trump.
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Time for a rethink
"It is interesting that there are so many comments agreeing with the Canadian PM's speech on the need for a rules-based order and adherence to international law. Such speeches should have been made by Western leaders, especially middle powers like Canada and Australia, years ago, before the US dragged us into 'forever wars' around the world, paying scant attention to international laws and order that multilateral institutions were espousing. Had that happened, we would not have been involved from Vietnam to Afghanistan. The Canadian PM had to wait until the wolf was at the door to cry foul. If the middle powers are heeding the Canadian PM's assertions, then
Australia should do a complete audit of our engagement, both in material terms and in diplomacy, in other conflicts. Silence, tacit agreement, and surreptitious acts carried out behind the public eye should cease."
Ranjan Yagoda, Melbourne VIC
Hate speech
"'Free speech' is not an excuse for 'hate speech'. Hate speech is what has increasingly divided our nation over the last two years. It has led to the numerous attacks on our fellow Australians, culminating in the murders at the Bondi massacre. Our government's reaction has been feeble & lacking in foresight. Hate speech and its consequences endanger the safety of all Australians."
Hugh Macindoe, Prospect SA
Learn from the Swiss
"A country is 'sovereign' for as long as other countries are happy for it to be so. There can be no international law if there is no enforcement mechanism (a police force) and the only international rule that every country acknowledges is that 'might is right'. Diplomats and pundits may cite 'international law' but they seem to do so only selectively. Becoming a Switzerland in the South Pacific is the only way to secure Australia's sovereignty."
Ian Gill
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