Work isn't the only place where people are using generative artificial intelligence.

People use the technology for their personal life too, for meal planning, ghostwriting emails

to an airline for a refund, creating wacky images for party invites.

Most of those uses are harmless.

But as we've discussed in our previous episodes, using Gen AI sometimes comes with risk, like asking it for tax help, or

prompting it at work and inadvertently exposing your company's secrets. Another area where using AI

can be risky, getting medical advice.

I'm Nicole Nguyen, personal tech columnist at the Wall Street Journal.

This is the final installment of our Tech News Briefing special series, Chatbot Confidential.

In this episode, we're focusing on asking AI about your personal health.

Thank you. episode, we're focusing on asking AI about your personal health. I went into a doctor and got results on a bunch of stats, like blood pressure, all of those

kind of things.

That's Robert Garrison.

He's 60 years young, his words, and living in Texas.

There's like 12 things in the list.

So I could see my results and the doctor said, yeah, it looks good.

But I put those results into, you know, I just made a PDF of it, put it into Chat-G-T

and said, do me favor and compare my stats to other people my age range. But then I got competitive, and I asked it to also compare it to people much younger than me.

And how did they compare?

Well, I don't want to brag, but pretty good.

Garrison asked Chatchip-T to create a personalized diet and exercise plan specific to the test results.

That PDF he uploaded to the chatbot,

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