Researchers outline how AI chatbots could be approved as medical devices

LLM-based generative chat tools, such as ChatGPT or Google’s MedPaLM have great medical potential, but there are inherent risks associated with their unregulated use in health care. A new Nature Medicine paper by Prof. Stephen Gilbert and colleagues addresses one of the most pressing international issues of our time: How to regulate Large Language Models (LLMs) in general and specifically in health.