The information age in which we live is reaching a new milestone with the development and ready access to conversational artificial intelligence based on advanced transformer algorithms, or AI chatbots, including their upcoming integration into multiple Internet search engines. This development creates exciting opportunities and potentially terrifying risks in the health care space. Ever since the advent of the modern search engine, people all over the world have browsed the Internet for medical advice on symptoms, potential procedures or treatments (including prescription drugs), and the possible progression of specific diseases or conditions, and have found various pieces of relevant or irrelevant information from a multitude of websites. Integrating AI chatbots into search engines allows an algorithm to gather information from the web and convert it into a narrative, conversational response to a user’s specific question. Inevitably, people will ask AI chatbot-enabled search…
