AI Incident Database: Alleged Harmful Health Outcomes Following Reported Use of Purported ChatGPT-Generated Medical Advice in Hyderabad
Reports from Hyderabad describe two alleged patient harms after individuals acted on purportedly ChatGPT-generated medical advice instead of clinician guidance. A kidney-transplant recipient reportedly discontinued prescribed post-transplant medications based on a chatbot suggestion and experienced graft failure. In a separate case, a man with diabetes allegedly developed severe hyponatremia after following a chatbot-advised zero-salt diet.
AI Incident Database · Incident 1281Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
Reports from Hyderabad describe two alleged patient harms after individuals acted on purportedly ChatGPT-generated medical advice instead of clinician guidance. A kidney-transplant recipient reportedly discontinued prescribed post-transplant medications based on a chatbot suggestion and experienced graft failure. In a separate case, a man with diabetes allegedly developed severe hyponatremia after following a chatbot-advised zero-salt diet.
Linked entities
- OpenAI
vendor | 70%
- unnamed-patient-with-diabetes-in-hyderabad
organisation | 70%
- unnamed-kidney-transplant-patient-in-hyderabad
organisation | 70%
- openai-users
organisation | 70%
- general-public-of-india
organisation | 70%
- general-public-of-hyderabad
organisation | 70%
- general-public
organisation | 70%
- chatgpt-users
organisation | 70%
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| ent-vendor-openai to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-openai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
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| ent-vendor-openai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
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| ent-vendor-openai to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-openai to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-openai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-openai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-openai to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |