Oct 5 11:16 pm Utah Pilots AI-Only Examination and Prescription Process for Certain Patients Mike Pearl ↗
Predictions that highly skilled jobs in medicine would simply be automated with AI, sometimes articulated by luminaries like Geoffrey Hinton, haven’t panned out so far. Just picturing what it would theoretically be like to be examined by an AI doctor made the AI-enabled enshittification of healthcare seem like a distant danger at the absolute worst. But a new pilot program in Utah might clear away some of the fog around this concept, and make visits to Dr. Slop feel one step closer to reality.