OMAHA, Neb. —

A new artificial intelligence chatbot created by a group of teenagers aims to make it easier to understand the American health care system.

Beginning their senior year of high school at Millard North, Pavan Athota, Anthony Le, and Wesley Chen have had anything but a normal summer. They spent part of it in Brazil, presenting a project, months in the making.

"This project's our baby," Athota said.

"Technology is taking over, and AI is becoming a big thing, so we decided to use AI as a tool," Le said.

That tool is called MedFinanceAI, a conversational chatbot to help people understand medical costs and how to navigate the health care system.

"One of the things about our chatbot that's different from Google or Chat GPT is we gather information from local hospitals, local me

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