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One state just let artificial intelligence step into a role long reserved for doctors.

Utah authorized Nolla Health’s AI to issue first-time acne prescriptions starting Monday, the first approval of its kind in the U.S., Bloomberg reported. The state previously let another startup use AI to approve prescription refills despite criticism from physicians.

“This makes Nolla the first ever end-to-end AI doctor,” Luis Wenus, founder of Nolla Health, said in a Monday post on X demonstrating the product.

The AI tool builds a personalized treatment plan and prescribes acne medication based on a facial scan, Wenus explained in the demonstration video.

“Until now, a licensed clinician signed every single prescription before it went out,” Wenus said in the video. “Our AI can now make that prescribing decision itself.”

Wenus is “building personal doctors,” according to his X profile page. Before Nolla, he worked for Worldcoin, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s project that scans people’s eyes to prove they are human and pays them in cryptocurrency tokens.

Utah’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy (OAIP) and Division of Professional Licensing co-signed an agreement with Nolla Health that permits the firm’s AI to write first-time prescriptions to treat topical acne, according to the state’s authorized-pilots page. The AI service cannot prescribe isotretinoin (Accutane) or oral medications.

Nolla’s pilot program began Monday and will run for a year, Cam Bronson, a legal and policy analyst with the state’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Unlike earlier pilots, which only let AI renew prescriptions a doctor had already written, Nolla’s system can issue first-time prescriptions for a topical medications, according to the agreement.