Re:Illinois Bans AI from Providing Therapy
by SilverElfin on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:18PM
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But why should things be locked down in the first place? Why do I need to go through doctors and insurance and all of this for simple diagnostic tests and the obvious prescriptions that are necessary? It’s so frustrating. Especially to do it repeatedly every so many months. My point is we are currently already in a state of regulatory capture. And with this new era of technology, we need to abandon that. Maybe not fully. But for many things.
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Re:Illinois Bans AI from Providing Therapy
by watwut on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:51AM
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Yeah, no, completely deregulated medical device and prescriptions market would be disaster.
> And with this new era of technology
Our current era of technology is allowing us to generate automated bull-shitters. Which is fine for some applications, but not for the ones where people can be actually harmed.
Nothing about our current era generates trustworthy systems. And both our business leaders and culture of elite technical people is the one where being sociopathic is an advantage. We created this world, but we do not have to pretend it is somehow meant to be helpful.