News Summary

• Utah is allowing an AI system to prescribe psychiatric drugs without a doctor.
• It’s only the second time the state — and the country — has delegated this kind of clinical authority to AI.
• State officials say it could bring costs down and ease care shortages, but physicians warn the system is opaque, risky, and unlikely to expand mental health care to those who need it.
• The program is deliberately narrow in scope, limited both in terms of the medications it covers and the conditions patients must meet to qualify.