ChatGPT Health & Your Medical Data
OpenAI recently announced ChatGPT Health, a healthcare-focused version of ChatGPT designed to help people better understand medical information. Along with the announcement came a reassuring message from OpenAI: You can safely share your medical information. - Really??? Now, on the surface, that sounds comforting — and to be fair, it’s a more careful approach than the early days of “ask the AI anything and hope for the best.” But as someone who’s spent years talking about technology, cybersecurity, and real-world risks, I want to slow this conversation down and add some much-needed perspective. Because when it comes to health data, trust should never be automatic. What ChatGPT Health Promises According to OpenAI, ChatGPT Health offers: A separate, dedicated health space inside ChatGPT Medical conversations kept apart from general chats Health data not used to train AI models Strong encryption and access controls Clear limits: the AI does not diagnose or replace your doctor Those are al...