What could possibly go wrong? A San Francisco startup just got the green light in Utah for its AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for antidepressants and anxiety meds. Sure, there are some guardrails — patients have to be “stable” and the bot can only refill drugs a human doctor already started — but experts are already warning about over-treatment, patients gaming the system, and the ghost of that earlier Utah AI pilot that happily recommended meth and tripled OxyContin doses. Welcome to the future of mental health, where your therapist might literally be a hallucinating algorithm.
Startup Approved to Let AI System Prescribe Psychiatric Medication
