Correction to: npj Digital Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-01671-6, published online 13 May 2025

In this article, text “Participant subgroup characteristics, including having former or current diagnosis or cancer, were not collected since this pilot study aimed to capture a broad range of perspectives from individuals with cancer experience, motivating future study evaluations of the association between participant subgroups and perceptions of chatbot empathy.” present at the end of the main text before the methods was inadvertently repeated. This has now been deleted. The original article has been corrected.