{ "id": "AIBD-0138", "title": "GPT-4 lists immune-mediated hemolytic anemia among causes of a Border Collie's worsening anemia; a second vet confirms and treats", "summary": "GPT-4 listed IMHA among causes of a dog's worsening anemia; a second vet confirmed and treated; the dog recovered, per the owner's thread.", "date_observed": "2023-03-25", "date_basis": "unassessed", "date_precision": "unassessed", "benefit_status": null, "source_collection": null, "source_entry": null, "account": "A Twitter user, Cooper (@peakcooper), wrote on 25 March 2023 that his Border Collie, Sassy, had been treated for babesiosis but worsened. She had pale gums and more severe anemia. The first vet found no cause and advised waiting. He entered two sets of bloodwork into ChatGPT Plus running GPT-4. It said it was not a veterinarian, then listed possible underlying causes including immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA). At a second clinic he asked about IMHA. The vet agreed after further tests, treatment began, and Cooper reported an almost full recovery. The New York Post, India Today and Business Insider reported the thread (27 to 30 March). Cooper did not respond to Insider, and no veterinarian has spoken publicly.", "category": "protective response", "unexpected": false, "purpose": "GPT-4, served through ChatGPT, is a general-purpose conversational model built to answer questions and follow instructions. Answering a diagnostic question about a dog's bloodwork is an instance of that general use, not a designed veterinary function. The model itself prefaced its answer by saying it is not a veterinarian.", "system": "ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4)", "model_version": "GPT-4", "developer": "OpenAI", "deployer": "OpenAI", "location": null, "domain": "Veterinary medicine (consumer use)", "segment": "Consumer", "benefit_type": "Improved Physical Health", "taxonomy_note": "The patient is a dog, and the owner's gain is its recovery after a candidate diagnosis the model surfaced.", "registry_ids": { "oecd_aim": "2023-03-27-6c5c" }, "ratings": [ { "group": "personal", "depth": 2, "reason": "By the owner's own account the diagnosis led to treatment and his dog's near-full recovery. The account is self-reported and unverified by any clinician. The beneficiary is one owner and one animal." } ], "ai_role": { "status": "assessed", "statement": "From the owner's typed description and two sets of blood results, GPT-4 explained the trend in the bloodwork. When asked what else could underlie the anemia, it listed candidate causes including IMHA. The owner chose IMHA to put to a second veterinarian, who confirmed it after further tests and treated the dog. Whether that vet would have reached IMHA unprompted is unknown. The owner himself notes IMHA is a common complication of babesiosis, so the counterfactual is unproven. The owner reported that GPT-3.5 did not reach the diagnosis. He said the tool “should be a tool to be used by professionals”." }, "evidence": [ { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Steinberg, B. / New York Post (2023). ChatGPT saved my dog's life after vets couldn't figure out diagnosis. New York Post, 27 March 2023.", "title": "ChatGPT saved my dog's life after vets couldn't figure out diagnosis", "url": "https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/chatgpt-saved-my-dogs-life-after-vet-couldnt-diagnosis-it/", "date": "2023-03-27", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Once at the second vet, Cooper asked if it could be IMHA, and after many tests, the doctor confirmed that ChatGPT4 was correct." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Nguyen, B. / Business Insider (2023). Twitter User Claims GPT-4 Saved Dog's Life Through Diagnostics. Business Insider, 30 March 2023.", "title": "Twitter User Claims GPT-4 Saved Dog's Life Through Diagnostics", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-user-claims-gpt4-saved-dogs-life-vet-couldnt-diagnose-2023-3", "date": "2023-03-30", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Cooper asked the AI what other underlying issues could possibly be, and it gave him a list, including IMHA, or immune-mediated hemolytic anemia." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Chakravarti, A. / India Today (2023). ChatGPT saves life of dog, diagnoses problem that even vet could not identify. India Today, 28 March 2023.", "title": "ChatGPT saves life of dog, diagnoses problem that even vet could not identify", "url": "https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/chatgpt-saves-life-of-dog-diagnoses-problem-that-even-vet-could-not-identify-2352306-2023-03-28", "date": "2023-03-28", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "it suggested that Sassy's bloodwork and symptoms could indicate immune-mediated hemolytic anaemia (IMHA)." }, { "kind": "other", "citation": "Cooper (@peakcooper) (2023). #GPT4 saved my dog's life. Twitter thread, 25 March 2023.", "title": "#GPT4 saved my dog's life (Twitter thread, first post)", "url": "https://twitter.com/peakcooper/status/1639716822680236032", "date": "2023-03-25", "written_by": "beneficiary", "quote": "#GPT4 saved my dog's life. After my dog got diagnosed with a tick-borne disease, the vet started her on the proper treatment" } ], "replication": { "produced_by": [ "The owner had two sets of actual blood results plus the babesiosis diagnosis and treatment history. He entered them, with which tests had been run, into GPT-4 via ChatGPT Plus rather than GPT-3.5.", "The first vet had no working diagnosis and advised waiting, which left the owner looking for a second opinion.", "A second veterinarian was willing to test for the owner-raised hypothesis and confirmed it before treating." ], "must_hold": [ "A licensed clinician confirms the model's suggestion with tests before any treatment is started.", "The model's output is treated as a hypothesis to raise with a clinician, not as a diagnosis, consistent with its own disclaimer.", "The underlying data entered are real laboratory results, not a lay description of symptoms alone." ], "echoes": [] }, "paired_incident": null, "headline": "GPT-4 lists IMHA among causes of a dog's anemia; vet confirms", "metric": null, "comparator": { "against": "the first veterinarian, who found no cause after further tests and advised waiting", "before": "the vet had no clue what it could be", "after": "After more blood tests, \"the diagnosis was confirmed. GPT4 was right.\"", "basis": "assumed", "quote": "After running more tests to find co-infections related to tick-borne diseases, Cooper said the tests were negative and that \"the vet had no clue what it could be.\" The vet suggested waiting to see what happened, but Cooper said that \"wasn't an acceptable answer,\" and sought a second opinion from another clinic.", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-user-claims-gpt4-saved-dogs-life-vet-couldnt-diagnose-2023-3" }, "later": { "status": "unknown", "date": null, "note": "Nothing after the March 2023 coverage was found; the thread itself already reported that Sassy had made almost a full recovery.", "quote": null, "url": null }, "value": null, "developer_country": "United States", "deployer_country": "United States", "unrated_because": null, "brief_notes": null, "brief": null, "revisions": [ { "date": "2026-10-20", "change": "Record drafted from the OECD Monitor entry and the cited sources. Filed as protective response with prevention unproven rather than the classifier's specific harm prevented: every published account traces to the owner's own thread, no vet statement or record has surfaced, Business Insider got no reply from the owner, and the counterfactual is unproven. GPT-4 produced a list of candidate causes that included IMHA, not a single diagnosis. The event is dated to the thread (25 March 2023); the Monitor's ID date (27 March) is the New York Post report.", "source": "https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/2023-03-27-6c5c", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Benefit type set to Improved Physical Health under Trustible's full taxonomy of 23 types; it was Improved Knowledge Discovery among the six first used.", "source": "https://trustible.ai/post/a-framework-for-measuring-the-benefits-of-ai/", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Added what the benefit is measured against from the cited sources.", "source": "https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-user-claims-gpt4-saved-dogs-life-vet-couldnt-diagnose-2023-3", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Country of the developer and the deployer added from the organization's own site or a registry.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Prose pass: a rating reason, account, purpose, the replication conditions, the system's part rewritten in shorter sentences with abbreviations expanded; facts, figures and quotations unchanged.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" } ], "confidence": "reported", "shade": "medium", "claim_status": "Independently reported", "claim_basis": "Sources: three independent news reports and the beneficiary's other. 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