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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[–] 8 points 4 days ago* (3 children)

Are you from the US? Do you work in healthcare? Or have any real firsthand experience of the inner workings of US healthcare from a non-patient/family caregiver perspective?

Because I am from the US and I've spent my entire adult life as a provider, and the commenter you're being a little bitch to is entirely in the right. Your misanthropic doomerism is as tired as it is willfully ignorant

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  • [+] -8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    So in your opinion, American healthcare didn't have a problem?

    Do you think Luigi (allegedly) over-reacted?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago

    Like the person you were replying to said, the US healthcare system is super fucked in many ways, but it can get a whole lot worse. Pretending that an unsupervised chatbot treating patients isn't any worse than how things currently are is bafflingly stupid. So stupid it would take someone who has no real experience in the matter to say it and then defend it. Neither the original commenter, or myself, have gotten remotely close to saying american healthcare doesn't have problems

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