{"id":237027,"date":"2026-05-13T02:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/study-reveals-dangerous-flaw-in-ai-symptom-checkers"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:23:23","slug":"study-reveals-dangerous-flaw-in-ai-symptom-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/study-reveals-dangerous-flaw-in-ai-symptom-checkers","title":{"rendered":"Study Reveals Dangerous Flaw in AI Symptom Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reveals-dangerous-flaw-in-ai-symptom-checkers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that distrust in AI causes people to give less detailed symptom reports, potentially reducing the accuracy of digital healthcare assessments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers found that distrust in AI causes people to give less detailed symptom reports, potentially reducing the accuracy of digital healthcare assessments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}