AXIOS (Caitlin Owens) - The era of Doctor AI is already here
Like it or not, consumers are already consulting AI for medical advice whenever they want to. Why it matters: This is opening access to medical information in an entirely new way. The problem is, that advice may not always be very good. Where it stands: OpenAI put out some numbers in January: More than 40 million people ask its ChatGPT health care-related questions every day, and 1 in 4 of the tool's approximately 800 million regular users submits a health care prompt every week. - The careful debate over how AI should be deployed, regulated and evaluated in clinical settings often fails to acknowledge that the cat's already out of the bag when it comes to direct-to-consumer use. - "Too often people are using this as an expert and not…