Politico April 22, 2024
Daniel Payne, Ruth Reader, Carmen Paun and Erin Schumaker

An AI leader in health care made the rounds on Capitol Hill last week with an unusual request: more regulations.

Mass General Brigham’s chief officer for data science and imaging information, Dr. Keith Dreyer, met with congressional staffers and asked them to encourage their bosses to play a larger role in governing artificial intelligence.

“It needs quite a bit of oversight because, if you build these systems wrong, they will make mistakes,” he told Daniel. “And if you don’t monitor these systems, they might even start out good, but they can turn bad.”

Though Congress still has a long way to go before sending an AI-focused law to the president’s desk, Dreyer said the response to his plea was positive.

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Provider, Regulations, Technology
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