OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, and as of today it lets you ask for medical guidance — in exchange for handing over structured, direct access to the most sensitive data that exists: your health.
Since ChatGPT went mainstream, millions of people have already been using it to make sense of lab results, symptoms, and health habits.
I have high blood pressure and I’m vaguely overweight. I’ve used it too — in moderation, with some degree of judgement.
But yesterday’s announcement isn’t simply OpenAI putting a formal label on something that was already happening. It’s a step that could be genuinely dangerous for our health.
What they’ve announced is a dedicated feature inside the chatbot where you can set up native integrations with Apple Health, Fitbit, and similar platforms — so you can get plain-language explanations of your own biometric data.
Sounds appealing, doesn’t it? A medical assistant that’s always on call, cataloguing, sorting, translating, and explaining your health data back to you. So — what do you make of this move from OpenAI?