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.
I wonder if any of this would mean any of us hoi polloi will have cheaper healthcare?
LOL, who am I kidding? The private equity firms running our clinics will probably try to reduce staff, underpay them as much as they can get away with, enshittify the outcomes as much as possible, and still jack up the prices for everything.
Oh man, can’t wait to see the AI data leaks that come from this.
Come on! What could possibly go wrong?
Sounds like yet another way to gather facial recognition data for the panopticon.
It’s like people plain forgot about Theranos.
This is so way different.
So ppl will give AI their facial biometric data and all their health records? Sounds like a bright future.
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”
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
Everything AI does is a scam. So yes.
Look past the hype of electronics mimicking intelligent processes for a moment, and look at what else is being done:
- monitor all cameras (report on populace)
- require all computing components on earth (price populace out of independent compute)
- require facial scans for medical reasons (store and categorize population demographics)
- require cloud storage for agent to have access to and buying your own hardware is impossible (report on populace, including enterprise)
- provide answers to internet queries and summarize news and current events (manufacture consent of the populace)
This is a total information takeover happening in broad daylight. They want to get us to pay to give them everything about us at all times. Like WAY more than we already have been, which was already too far. This needs to be STOPPED.
People are going to die I guarantee it
I don’t think they’re going to die since it’s only for acne. But to be fair, that headline is atrocious and meant to click bait everyone.
It’s for acne, for now.
Sterility then? Acne drugs are well known to impact fertility
There are acne medications that are extremely dangerous. IDK if this clanker would be allowed to prescribe accutane, but that’s something that absolutely requires careful monitoring.
Yeah Accutane requires regular blood tests to make sure it’s not killing you. Probably not great to prescribe without a real doctor.
There’s also that pesky black box warning about how it increases the risk of suicidal ideation.
I can absolutely imagine this ignoring a carcinoma that no human doctor would have.
But hospital execs are gonna go “see it worked for acne, let’s try other stuff.”
☝️ This.
Undertaker lobby: “This is good for business.”
Death is great for the insurance industry, people dying of easily treated, but expensive procedures will equal bigger bonuses and high yields for investors.
Somebody only read the headline and jumped straight to comments.
Utah is largely Republican.
Please proceed
Sadly, I think you’re right.
Doctors are so bad here, i bet as first contact AI performs better than those self prescribing money sucking meth junkies in white.
Just ask your average pharmacist who cross checks prescriptions.
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Well I hope it turns out just as well as I think it will.
How long until someone tricks the AI to prescribe the morning after pill for acne?
This will be so great for all the antivaxxers here who can’t find a pediatrician
Gunshot wound? Sounds like a pre-existing condition.
Mental note. NEVER GO THERE.
Guess I’ll add that to the states I won’t be visiting, let alone living in.
