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Written by Anthony on 2025-01-24 at 14:04

I don't really have words: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/238

H.R.238 - 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.

Besides the fact that computer programs are incapable of doing this (1), attempting to make medical choices for a person based on "data" is the same category of wrong thinking as phrenology, a discredited pseudoscience. (2)

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(1) See Joseph Weizenbaum, from 1976, Computer Power and Human Reason

(2) Phrenology isn't just about reading bumps on people's heads. It rests on the unjustifiable and destructive worldview that you can tell what matters about a person by taking external measurements, in this case about their intellect using only features of the skull. That works on machines like cars, but human beings are not machines.

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