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‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice

from The Audio Long Read · host The Guardian

Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medic By Viola Zhou. Read by Vivian Full This essay was originally published on Rest of world. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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