AI in Healthcare September 20, 2023
Last week brought the latest in an occasional series of conversations on AI between governmental leaders and Big Tech honchos. For months, the No. 1 topic on the table has been regulation. Businesses are counterintuitively clamoring for it, and the political parties are—for the moment, anyway—united over it.
Held behind closed doors, the Sept. 13 huddle really started the week before. On Sept. 8, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) laid out a five-bullet framework the two are sure to follow in drafting their subcommittee’s anticipated AI bill.
“License requirements, clear AI identification, accountability, transparency, strong protections for consumers and kids: Such common sense principles are a solid starting point,” Blumenthal said in introducing the framework.
“Our...