Repeat scripts written by AI ‘doctor’ with no human oversight made legal by US state
Doctronic says its AI asks the same questions as a GP.
An AI ‘doctor’ has been allowed to write legal prescriptions covering 190 medicines for various chronic conditions without human oversight in an apparent world first.
Utah, in the US, will honour script renewals drawn up by Doctronic — an AI chatbot created by a private company of the same name — as part of a 12-month trial.
The American Medical Association has slammed the move, with its vice-president, Dr John Whyte, telling Politico that unsupervised AI posed “serious risks to patients and physicians alike”.
The drugs include blood pressure medications, cardiometabolic medications, birth control and SSRIs.
