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.
One argument is about addictive drugs, which ideally would only be prescribed with proper oversight. Another is antibiotics, where improper and unnecessary use makes for resistant bacteria, which impacts everyone.
I think you’ve misunderstood the antibiotics argument… the actual argument is almost always about animal agriculture where the scale of antibiotics use dwarfs that of regular humans.
That’s in there, too. But overprescribing of antibiotics to people is also not great, because you’re breeding drug resistant bacteria that affect people.