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Utah Greenlights AI Chatbot to Prescribe Psychiatric Drugs in Landmark One-Year Pilot

Utah has officially launched a high-stakes, one-year pilot program authorizing an AI chatbot to renew psychiatric prescriptions without direct physician intervention. While state officials champion the move as a vital solution to critical healthcare shortages and rising costs, the medical community has raised urgent “black box” warnings. Experts caution that delegating clinical authority to opaque algorithms could overlook subtle patient destabilization and create a risky precedent for the future of autonomous mental health care.

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