The leaders of the organization that serves the country's state medical boards published a direct answer on Monday to a question state legislatures have started asking. Artificial intelligence, they wrote, should not be licensed to practice medicine the way a physician is.
The position carries weight because of who is stating it. Humayun J. Chaudhry, president and chief executive of the Federation of State Medical Boards, and Christy Valentine Theard, chair of the FSMB board of directors, wrote in STAT that generative AI should be governed inside existing professional accountability structures rather than treated as a separate practitioner.
