Healthy Technology Act of 2021: A Bill to Introduce AI Doctors
What if replacing human workers with patented AI is a genuine business goal?
This story is a collection of recent news that caught my eye.
#1. Healthy Technology Act of 2021
This newly introduced bill is stunning. It suggests that artificial intelligence and machine learning could qualify as medical doctors in the legal sense of it.
HR5467 was introduced by David Schweikert (R-Ariz.).
Quote:
“To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can qualify as a practitioner eligible to prescribe drugs if authorized by the State involved and approved, cleared, or authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, and for other purposes.”
Translation from Orwellian to English:
If this bill passes, AI will prescribe your drugs and—since the language of the bill includes unspecified “other purposes,” perhaps AI will also vote on panels deciding what v-nes or therapies should be recommended or mandated?
And if it doesn’t pass, it paves the way to the idea that robots …
