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Artificial Intelligence health advice accuracy varies across languages and contexts

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  • Prashant Garg
  • Thiemo Fetzer

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Using basic health statements authorized by UK and EU registers and 9,100 journalist-vetted public-health assertions on topics such as abortion, COVID-19 and politics from sources ranging from peer-reviewed journals and government advisories to social media and news across the political spectrum, we benchmark six leading large language models from in 21 languages, finding that, despite high accuracy on English-centric textbook claims, performance falls in multiple non-European languages and fluctuates by topic and source, highlighting the urgency of comprehensive multilingual, domain-aware validation before deploying AI in global health communication.

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  • Prashant Garg & Thiemo Fetzer, 2025. "Artificial Intelligence health advice accuracy varies across languages and contexts," Papers 2504.18310, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2504.18310
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