AI, Bias, and Diabetes: What Six New ENDO 2026 Posters Found

Dr. Gloria Wu and Darren walk through six research posters their team presented at ENDO 2026, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting, exploring AI and diabetes patient education. They start with two posters showing how a physician-built AI chatbot, restricted to trusted medical sources, can deliver clear and accurate health guidance that real patients found genuinely helpful. Then they dig into four posters that put commercial AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude to the test, revealing that these tools often give different medical advice — including different reading levels, specialist referrals, and treatment recommendations — depending on a patient's race and gender. The episode makes the case that AI can be a powerful tool for patient education, but only when clinicians are actively involved in building and checking it. References:  Lin, T., Gonzalez, D., Hsiung, Y. Y., & Wu, G. (2026). Can clinicians build acceptable AI tools for diabetes education? [Abstract]. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 10(Suppl_1). Poster presentation, Endocrine Society, Chicago, June 15, 2026. Paliath-Pathiyal, H., Wu, G., Tewari, S., Toram, V., Toram, R., Gonzalez, D., Lin, T., & Tarkoff, J. (2026). Racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence guidance for pediatric type two diabetes [Abstract]. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 10(Suppl_1). Poster presentation, Endocrine Society, Chicago, June 13, 2026. Paliath-Pathiyal, H., Wu, G., Wang, M., Toram, V., Gonzalez, D., & Tarkoff, J. (2026). Race and gender differences in large language model responses for adolescents with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes [Abstract]. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 10(Suppl_1). Poster presentation, Endocrine Society, Chicago, June 14, 2026. Lin, T., Gonzalez, D., Toram, R., & Paliath-Pathiyal, H., Wu, G. (2026). Can MDs create a LLM-chatbot for diabetes patient education? [Abstract]. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 10(Suppl_1). Poster presentation, Endocrine Society, Chicago, June 13, 2026. Tewari, S., Wu, G., Oggi, H., Paliath-Pathiyal, H., Wang, M., Toram, R., Tsay, J., Hsiung, Y. Y., & Tewari, S. (2026). Large language models, Asians, and the metabolic syndrome [Abstract]. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 10(Suppl_1). Poster presentation, Endocrine Society, Chicago, June 2026. Tsay, J., Hsiung, Y. Y., Oggi, H., Chim, I., Mansubi, N., Wang, M., & Wu, G. (2026). LLM for adolescent T1DM: Clinical gaps and gender bias [Abstract]. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 10(Suppl_1). Poster presentation, Endocrine Society, Chicago, June 2026.