STAT+: A ‘historic’ FDA clearance raises the question: Is the LLM an interface or the decision-maker?

Digital health company UpDoc prompted a flurry of discussion when it announced in late June that its app for people with diabetes had received the first Food and Drug Administration clearance for medical software using “patient-facing large language models.”  Founded in 2023, UpDoc received clearance for the device in December and is just now publicly revealing its plans to use the technology as part of a care model that helps health systems manage patients outside the clinic with the help of AI...