Viewpoint

When Patients Share Everything With an AI Chatbot

JAMA 10.1001/jama.2026.9507

June 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint discusses the potential benefits and risks, such as privacy violations, discrimination, and exacerbation of health disparities, that may accompany the unfiltered upload of electronic health records to large language models.

Corresponding Author: I. Glenn Cohen, JD, Harvard Law School, Griswold Hall 503, 1525 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 (igcohen@law.harvard.edu).

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