Artificial intelligence (AI) can now be used to prescribe mental health drugs for the first time in the world, starting next month in Utah, making prescription renewals quicker and cheaper. Y Combinator-backed company Legion Health, which has raised $7 million since launching in 2021, is set to be the first mental health program globally with authorization to allow AI to prescribe psychiatric medications. Initially, only patients in Utah will be able to use this feature, but it plans to expand to other states soon. The system can only renew what Legion deems "lower-risk psychiatric maintenance medications" that a human doctor has previously prescribed. The company's goal is to build the AI doctor as a ‘black box’ that can handle specific clinical tasks safely, transparently, and at scale. The pilot rollout will follow a careful rollout, with the first 250 prescriptions requiring doctor oversight, the next 1,000 receiving post-evaluation reviews by doctors, and only then the AI will operate autonomously. Utah has positioned itself as a leader in AI policy, creating regulatory sandboxes to test new technologies.