Should You Trust ChatGPT With Your Health?
Hundreds of millions of people weekly use ChatGPT for health questions, driving OpenAI's health AI investment.
“We've just been working with a bunch of licensed mental health experts across the world to think about the right ways to define model behavior and a bunch of tricky scenarios and ensure that we can get to a level of consensus where we can actually measure performance.”
OpenAI's head of health AI research, Karin Singal, spoke with a16z about the massive scale of ChatGPT health usage and OpenAI's strategic framing of health as a core AGI benefit domain. OpenAI is collaborating with licensed mental health professionals to define safe model behavior for sensitive health scenarios. The signal matters because it reveals OpenAI is building institutional health AI governance infrastructure, not just shipping features.