STAT May 11, 2021
Andrew Joseph

For the myriad applications of artificial intelligence, Eric Schmidt, the onetime Google CEO, sees one area where it’s poised to unleash the most sweeping changes.

“When I try to market the importance of AI, I say that AI will have its biggest impact in biology and health, because biology is so complicated,” Schmidt said Tuesday at STAT’s Health Tech Summit.

But to fully unlock AI’s full potential, there need to be policy changes, Schmidt said in a conversation with Linda Henry, the CEO of Boston Globe Media Partners, STAT’s parent company. For example, people generally have to agree to let their anonymized health data be used for research purposes, but that limits how much information is available for algorithms to...

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