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Utah will become first state to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without direct human oversight (www.techspot.com)
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Being a doctor is one of the jobs expected to be least at risk from AI replacement. But a new program launched in Utah is raising questions over that assumption. A healthcare startup will begin offering AI examinations and prescriptions to patients without direct human oversight, making Utah the first state to replace a doctor with an AI.

The good news is that the program is currently very limited in its scope. It's just one year long and only for patients with mild-to-moderate acne.

The process works when a person signs up for Nolla Health's $4.99-per-month app and uses it to scan their face. After completing a medical history and personal information form, the AI analyzes their skin, identifies the acne problem, rates the skin's oiliness, and then generates a numerical acne severity score that ranges between clear skin and severe acne, reports Bloomberg.

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[–] 22 points 1 month ago

Oh Utah. You so stupid

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    [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    Kids going to be jailbreaking their doctor and ordering goofy pills smdh

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    [–] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The only thing they taught it how to do was to deny gender-affirming care.

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    • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Can’t wait to see how pharmaceutical ads/reps factor into these.

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    • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Goofy fucking mormons...

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    • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    reads: Utah first state to legalize prescription narcotics for recreational use

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    • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    * minutes long sigh *

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    • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Eventually this is all your insurance will cover.

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Why!? This is fucking bonkers!

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    feels like they just want our faces for some book or whatever

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Oh, okay, that sounds like a good way to get away with fucking up by blaming it on the AI, and no one gets held accountable for prescribing little Timmy a lethal dose of death juice or whatever.

    It's almost as if these people don't care at all

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I really hate all the face scanning shit.

    Biometrics for passwords are already bad. Imagine a wonderful world where "Reset my Advertising ID" means extensive plastic surgery.

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I thought that Utah was supposed to be super-conservative...

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