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.
It’s like people plain forgot about Theranos.
Sounds like yet another way to gather facial recognition data for the panopticon.
This will be so great for all the antivaxxers here who can’t find a pediatrician
This reminds me of the Futurama joke:
Mars was a “dreary, uninhabitable wasteland” much like Utah, according to the Professor. However unlike Utah, it was “eventually made livable”
Well I hope it turns out just as well as I think it will.
AI medical errors aside, isn’t this a way to get facial scans into the AI database, specifically those of the youths? Especially the most gullible youths. And connect them with their medical history and identity.
HIPAA means nothing to AI
How long until someone tricks the AI to prescribe the morning after pill for acne?
Gunshot wound? Sounds like a pre-existing condition.
Guess I’ll add that to the states I won’t be visiting, let alone living in.
Where even is Mike Judge?
AI chatbot standing over your corpse: ‘I can tell by your lack of response you had all questions answered to your satisfaction, happy to help! ;)’
Good luck.
I don’t even trust AI to tell me how long to cook meatloaf…
As someone who works in biotech, and who has more than a few friends who work in medicine and clinical settings: this is absolutely going to kill people.
What the fuck, Utah!
This state is trash, buddy. Our elected officials blatantly serve the Mormon church. And the Mormon church is an elaborate multi-billion dollar enterprise. So it’s the owner class these mindless cultists vote for in every election.
This doesn’t prevent me from voting for progressive candidates or the least fascist ones when there’s no other option. As soon as my kid is done with school we’re outta here
