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.

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.

  • 4am@lemmy.zip
    311·
    23 hours ago

    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.