OpenAI says 40 million people use ChatGPT for healthcare every day

• 40 million ChatGPT users ask about health every single day
• 200 million ChatGPT users ask AI at least once a week about health-related matters
• OpenAI says "AI is a healthcare ally"

OpenAI has published a report claiming that 40 million people are using ChatGPT for health-related questions every single day, a number that would have sounded wild a couple of years ago but now feels almost inevitable.

The company describes its chatbot as a healthcare ally, saying users regularly ask about symptoms, medications, treatment options, and how to navigate often overwhelmed health systems.

The report suggests more than five percent of all ChatGPT prompts are about health, and 200 million of the chatbot's 800 million weekly users ask at least one health-related prompt every week.