{"id":220839,"date":"2026-05-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/canadians-may-ask-ai-for-medical-advice-but-dont-want-it-replacing-humans-poll-suggests\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:05:09","slug":"canadians-may-ask-ai-for-medical-advice-but-dont-want-it-replacing-humans-poll-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/canadians-may-ask-ai-for-medical-advice-but-dont-want-it-replacing-humans-poll-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians may ask AI for medical advice but don&#8217;t want it replacing humans, poll suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/ai-healthcare-canadians-poll-9.7213138\">Canadians may ask AI for medical advice but don&#8217;t want it replacing humans, poll suggests<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/ai-healthcare-canadians-poll-9.7213138\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/ai-healthcare-canadians-poll-9.7213138<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbc.ca\">www.cbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new poll suggests that while some Canadians are using AI chatbots for medical advice, many remain hesitant about AI making medical decisions or replacing doctor visits.<\/li>\n<li>46% of respondents had asked an AI chatbot for medical advice in the past year, but 68% preferred to wait for a doctor&#8217;s consultation rather than get an immediate AI-generated diagnosis.<\/li>\n<li>Only 13% were comfortable with AI independently diagnosing and prescribing medication.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns were raised about the impact of AI on the healthcare system, privacy breaches, and potential profit for private tech companies from public health systems.<\/li>\n<li>40% of respondents believed AI will worsen Canadian healthcare in 10 years, while 30% thought it would improve it.<\/li>\n<li>There was a significant worry that AI will make medical visits feel cold and impersonal, and concerns were raised about privacy and data sharing.<\/li>\n<li>Experts acknowledge the opportunity for AI to complement, rather than replace, human judgment in healthcare systems, emphasizing the need for transparency and safeguarding personal information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians may ask AI for medical advice but don&#8217;t want it replacing humans, poll suggests&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/56760879-f0ea-4e62-b8e1-e66f4a9f281f,1779837405304\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%28133%2C541%2C2915%2C1639%29%3BResize%3D620","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220841,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220839\/revisions\/220841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}