The Prompt Engineering Fallacy: How Diverse Users Construct Prompts in Health Chatbot Interactions

Authors

  • Jia Lin Department of Family, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v9i4.43373

Abstract

Through a participatory health chatbot Promptathon, I reconceptualize prompting as a socially situated practice and introduce the prompt engineering fallacy.
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Published

2026-10-11

How to Cite

Lin, J. (2026). The Prompt Engineering Fallacy: How Diverse Users Construct Prompts in Health Chatbot Interactions. Proceedings of the AAAI ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 9(4), 2937–2938. https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v9i4.43373

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 4: Proceedings of the Ninth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-26) - Main Track IV & Student Abstracts

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Student Abstracts