The company is rolling out its ChatGPT Health feature to users in the US who are 18 years or older. OpenAI is rolling out its dedicated health experience, ChatGPT Health, to users who are 18 years or older and live in the US. The company began testing ChatGPT Health in January in a separate portal, but this updated version lets ChatGPT reference relevant health data in any conversation. The new feature is designed to go beyond the chatbot's existing ability to answer health-related questions -- something OpenAI claims its new GPT-5.6 Sol model improves -- and grounds responses in personal data from doctors' notes, blood tests and more.

It allegedly offered extremely dangerous medical recommendations regarding a pulmonary embolism. A pastor has sued OpenAI after alleging the software gave him extremely dangerous medical recommendations, according to a report by . This reportedly led to delayed care to treat a serious of pulmonary embolisms, as ChatGPT allegedly told Scott Winters that the symptoms he described were not something dangerous. It even reportedly drew on his religious beliefs, telling him that God did not design your body to endlessly fail. The suit accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of negligence and the unauthorized practice of medicine.

OpenAI’s newest product, which is intended to provide health advice, is no replacement for a doctor. But it might be better than searching the web for your symptoms.

Users Like It or Not, A.I. Is Part of Health Care Now There's a key thing to keep in mind if you ask a chatbot for medical advice. Asking a general-use chatbot for health help used to seem like a shot in the dark--just two years ago, a study found that ChatGPT could diagnose only 2 in 10 pediatric cases correctly. Among Google Gemini's early recommendations were eating one small rock a day and using glue to help cheese stick to pizza . Last year, a nutritionist ended up hospitalized after taking ChatGPT's advice to replace salt in his diet with sodium bromide. Now A.I. companies have begun releasing health-specific chatbots for both consumers and health care professionals.