{"id":262471,"date":"2026-06-02T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/people-are-flooding-ai-chatbots-with-health-questions-microsoft-is-teaming-up-with-mayo-clinic-to-help\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:05:21","slug":"people-are-flooding-ai-chatbots-with-health-questions-microsoft-is-teaming-up-with-mayo-clinic-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/people-are-flooding-ai-chatbots-with-health-questions-microsoft-is-teaming-up-with-mayo-clinic-to-help\/","title":{"rendered":"People are flooding AI chatbots with health questions. Microsoft is teaming up with Mayo Clinic to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/02\/tech\/ai-for-healthcare-microsoft-mayo-clinic\">People are flooding AI chatbots with health questions. Microsoft is teaming up with Mayo Clinic to help<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/02\/tech\/ai-for-healthcare-microsoft-mayo-clinic\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/02\/tech\/ai-for-healthcare-microsoft-mayo-clinic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 14:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <strong class=\"ai-article-summary__title\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__stars-icon\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n            <span>Summary<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/strong><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__toggle-caret-up\" aria-label=\"Toggle Article Summary\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__toggle-caret-down\" aria-label=\"Toggle Article Summary\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ai-article-summary__items\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">Tens of millions of people are now turning to AI chatbots for health advice.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">Microsoft and Mayo Clinic are partnering to build an AI model trained on medical records and clinical expertise.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">The tool could eventually help patients understand diagnoses and treatment options and support doctors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__disclaimer-text\">AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"source__location vossi-source__location\" data-editable=\"location\">New York<\/span><span class=\"source__separator\">\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpwnz4yp001w2dpbhdcta44o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            People have been seeking out health information online since the dawn of the internet. And now, tens of millions of people are turning to artificial intelligence for questions they once asked \u201cDr. Google.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpwuodoa000b3b6rr33xdgno@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But the large language models behind most mainstream AI chatbots are trained on a wide variety of content \u2014 including huge swaths of the internet \u2014 meaning the advice can be iffy and occasionally dangerous.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpwuodob000c3b6rhnu466qd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Microsoft and Mayo Clinic are now teaming up to address that by building an AI model trained specifically on medical data, including records, research and the expertise of the hospital\u2019s clinicians, which they say will help both patients and providers.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpwuodob000d3b6r8z80pqty@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe needed to have the right data and the right people in the right place to be able to do this, and we firmly believe that will result in better healthcare outcomes for people who use the model,\u201d Mayo Clinic CEO Gianrico Farrugia told CNN ahead of the project\u2019s announcement at Microsoft\u2019s Build developer event on Tuesday\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpwuodob000e3b6rdzn7ka6l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Mayo Clinic will own the model, and the organizations hope it will eventually power AI tools for clinicians at the health provider\u2019s hospitals \u2014 with the potential to license the technology to other healthcare institutions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/02\/tech\/ai-for-healthcare-microsoft-mayo-clinic\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are flooding AI chatbots with health questions. 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