About that bipartisan $32B ‘roadmap’ for AI policy: What’s in it for healthcare?

AI in Healthcare May 16, 2024
Dave Pearson

This week Washington took a major step toward nailing down a solid game plan on federal AI spending for everything outside of defense.

On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, flanked by two Senate Republicans and another Senate Democrat, released a 30-page “roadmap” to guide fiscal deliberations in congressional committee meetings to come.

The document calls for plunking down “at least” 32 billion taxpayer dollars in 2026. That will be a massive increase from the $1.7 billion allocated for nondefense R&D spending on AI in 2022. Then too the 2026 amount is consistent with the dollar figure proposed in 2021 by the independent National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

Schumer’s four-member AI Working Group—the other three senators are Indiana Republican...

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