Srinagar – November 14, 2026: Medical specialists, hospital consultants, and public health practitioners across Kashmir have raised serious concerns over the escalating trend of citizens relying on generative artificial intelligence chatbots and online algorithms for medical self-diagnosis and self-medication.
Senior clinicians at tertiary healthcare institutions in Srinagar noted that outpatient departments are witnessing a steady influx of patients presenting heightened health anxieties or exacerbated clinical conditions after following flawed treatment recommendations generated by consumer AI models. In several alarming cases, patients self-administered antibiotics, corticosteroids, and blood pressure medications without formal clinical consultation.
Physicians emphasized that while artificial intelligence serves as a transformative diagnostic tool when operated by trained radiologists and pathologists, consumer chatbots lack sensory diagnostic capability, patient clinical history context, and localized epidemiological awareness, often generating plausible-sounding but medically dangerous hallucinations.
Medical associations have urged the health directorate to roll out digital health literacy guidelines, advising the public to view AI symptom checkers merely as informational reference points while seeking professional clinical diagnosis for physical symptoms.
Published by True Roots Media