<p>If you weren't convinced we're spiraling toward some shitty Cyberpunk hell, a new bill seeking to let AI prescribe controlled drugs just might. The proposed bill was introduced in the House of Representatives earlier in January, and was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for review. Its purpose is 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." Given what we know about AI in healthcare so far You don't need to be Cory Doctorow to imagine a world […]</p>