Your doctor may have a new assistant that isn't human.

Artificial intelligence is not new to medicine or health care delivery. But as large language model AI, such as ChatGPT, rapidly become more powerful, doctors have increasingly been adopting patient-facing tools in their practice.

But AI comes with its own set of risks and challenges, and those can be especially serious in the context of health care.

"Certainly there's a whole number of ways that AI can be used," said Lorian Hardcastle, an ***…