AI system
- System
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ChatGPT (OpenAI), described in the post as 'an advanced AI model and a limited-use trial version of GPT-5'
- Model
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A trial version of GPT-5, according to the cousin’s post.
Editor’s note. The identification comes from the cousin’s post. The existing sources provide no model output or vendor confirmation.
- Release
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Exact release not established.
- Application developer
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OpenAI - Role
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The chatbot supplied treatment suggestions, according to the patient’s cousin.
- Configuration
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Not assessed
- Inputs and outputs
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Not assessed
- Autonomy
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Not assessed
- Workflow
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A layperson prompting ChatGPT for first aid during a suspected aluminum phosphide ingestion. Paraffin oil bought from a pharmacy and given before and, by the cousin's account, during hospital care.
- Human oversight
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Not assessed
- Relation to AI
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ChatGPT's output (advice to give paraffin oil, then nine bottles in turn with breathing exercises) is documented only by the cousin's own post. The chat transcripts were not published (“too many to publish all”, per Masrawy's summary of the post). Dean Alaa Attia contradicts its effect: he says that the patient had no clinical signs of phosphine poisoning and denied swallowing the pill. Dr Nermin Hamdi's report that Assiut University denied the case involved the grain pill also contradicts it. Dr Mahmoud Amr says that oil is a recognized first aid but not a cure. Whether the hospital followed any of the AI's instructions is unsupported by any source other than the post.
- AI contribution
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ChatGPT's output (advice to give paraffin oil, then nine bottles in turn with breathing exercises) is documented only by the cousin's own post. The chat transcripts were not published (“too many to publish all”, per Masrawy's summary of the post). Dean Alaa Attia contradicts its effect: he says that the patient had no clinical signs of phosphine poisoning and denied swallowing the pill. Dr Nermin Hamdi's report that Assiut University denied the case involved the grain pill also contradicts it. Dr Mahmoud Amr says that oil is a recognized first aid but not a cure. Whether the hospital followed any of the AI's instructions is unsupported by any source other than the post.
Benefits
- Outcome identifiers
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Not assessed
- Benefit
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A Facebook post of 24 May 2025 credits ChatGPT with first aid. Assiut Faculty of Medicine dean Alaa Attia says that the youth had no phosphine symptoms and said he threw the pill into water.
- Category
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Improved Physical Health
- Status
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Not assessed
- Beneficiary groups
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People. Society.
- Beneficiaries
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Not assessed
- Reach
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Not assessed
- Distribution and access
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Not assessed
- Duration
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Not assessed
- Expected?
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No
- Costs and harms
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Not assessed
Measurement
- Studies
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Not assessed
- Study design
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Not assessed
- Measurement
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Not assessed
- Setting and sample
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Not assessed
- Measures
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Not assessed
- Comparison
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Not assessed
- Results
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Not assessed
- Additional value from AI
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Not assessed
- Limitations
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Not assessed
- Denominators
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Not assessed
- Materials for replication
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Not assessed
Money
- Kind of value
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Not assessed
- Amount
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Not assessed
- Currency and prices
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Not assessed
- Period and unit
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Not assessed
- Realization
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Not assessed
- Recipients and payers
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Not assessed
- Gross or net
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Not assessed
- Included costs
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Not assessed
- Comparison
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Not assessed
- Method
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Not assessed
- Return and payback
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Not assessed
People and places
- Participants
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Developer:
OpenAI. Operator: Islam Adel, the patient's cousin, as a consumer user. - Jurisdictions
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Benefit: Abnoub and Assiut University Hospital, Assiut Governorate,
Egypt. Developer: 
United States. - Ownership and control
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Not assessed
- Dependencies
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Not assessed
- Cross-border connections
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Not assessed
- Geopolitical implications
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Not assessed
Follow-up
- Conditions for replication
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That the pill was swallowed at all, which the treating dean says the patient denied. Clinical confirmation of phosphine poisoning and of any effect of the oil. Assiut's paraffin-oil-plus-acetylcysteine protocol is described by the dean as experimental and not officially adopted.
- Replication attempts
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Not assessed
- Later findings
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25 May 2025. The next day the dean of Assiut University's Faculty of Medicine told Masrawy that the youth showed no clinical signs of phosphine poisoning and had categorically denied swallowing the pill, and on 26 May a toxicologist told Al Jazeera Mubasher that the claim that paraffin oil rescues such a case has no scientific basis.
- Availability
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Not assessed
- Institutional decision
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Not assessed
- Grounds
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Not assessed
- Action and result
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Not assessed
- Success criterion
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Not assessed
Evidence
- Source numbers
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AIBD-0325-source-0001–0006
- Citations
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Numbered references below.
- Language
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Not assessed
- Source relationships
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Independent
- Original evidence
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Not assessed
- Access and versions
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Not assessed
- Supported findings
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Not assessed
- Evidence links
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Not assessed
- Evidence strength
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Not assessed
- Missing evidence
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Not assessed
Grades
- Assessed benefits
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People. Society.
- Depth
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Not assessed
- Reasons
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People: The survival claim rests on the cousin's post. The dean says that there was no poisoning to survive. No outcome attributable to the advice is therefore documented. Society: Al Jazeera Mubasher and Dostor report experts warning that the “trend” could kill. No wider effect is documented.
- Observed or intended
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Not assessed
- Rubric
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Not assessed
- Assessor and date
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Not assessed
- Alternative assessments
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Not assessed
- Fill
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Independently reported
Entry details
- Kind
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Not assessed
- Related entries
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Not assessed
- Field
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Healthcare: emergency toxicology. Consumer chatbot used for first-aid advice.
- Purpose
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ChatGPT is a general-purpose assistant. The cousin used it for emergency first-aid advice and, by his account, for instructions during hospital care. The claimed benefit (a survival) is outside any stated purpose of the system.
- Dates
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Date basis unassessed: 2025 (precision unassessed). Updated: 21 October 2026.
- Stage
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Not assessed
- Version
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SHA-256: c89c1581d594…
References
- Other identifiers
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oecd_aim: 2025-05-24-415b.
- Category mappings
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Not assessed
- Brief
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Not assessed
- Revisions
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9 revisions. Latest: 21 October 2026.
Sources
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News report Independent author
خلال دقائق قررت أسأل شات جي بي تي عن التصرف الأمثل فنصحني فورًا باستخدام زيت البرافين
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News report Independent author
كما أكد أن الشاب نفى تناوله للقرص وأقر بأنه ألقاه في حوض ماء
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News report Independent author
Masrawy (Mahmoud Agami, Assiut), 25 May 2025, 'عميد طب أسيوط يكشف حقيقة منشور "شات جي بي تي وحبة الغلال"'.
لم تظهر عليه أي أعراض سريرية تشير إلى تعرضه لتسمم بمادة الفوسفين الناتجة عن قرص الغلة
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News report Independent author
تناول الزيوت بالفعل يُعد من الإسعافات الأولية الضرورية في حالات التسمم بحبوب الغلة
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News report Independent author
إعطاء المصاب بالتسمم أي نوع من الزيوت هو بمثابة إسعاف أولي وليس علاجا
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Registry label Independent author
OECD AI Incidents and Hazards Monitor, record 2025-05-24-415b, 'AI Intervention Saves Teen from Poisoning' (AI-generated summary).
The AI recommended immediately coating the pill with paraffin oil to mitigate poisoning effects, helping counteract doctors’ initial pessimism and contributing to the teen’s survival.