The rush to deploy A.I. in health care raises hard questions about accuracy and trust. Unsplash

Each week, more than 230 million people globally ask ChatGPT questions about health and wellness, according to OpenAI. Seeing a vast, untapped demand, OpenAI earlier this month launched ChatGPT Health and made a swift $60 million acquisition of the health care tech startup Torch to turbocharge the effort. Anthropic soon followed suit, announcing Claude for Healthcare last week. The move from general-purpose chatbot to health care advisor is well underway.

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For a world rife with health care inequities—whether skyrocketing insurance costs in the U.S. or care deserts in remote regions around the globe—democratized information and advice about one’s health is, at least in theory, a positive development. But the intricacies of how large A.I. companies operate raise questions that health tech experts are eager to interrogate.

“What I am worried about as a clinician is that there is still a high level of hallucinations........

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