Politico December 2, 2024
Ben Leonard, Daniel Payne and Erin Schumaker

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Leading House Republicans are taking a hard look at plans to regulate artificial intelligence in health care.

They want HHS to back away from assurance labs intended to vet AI tools, our Ben Leonard reports.

The details: Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas); Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), who is running to chair the Energy and Commerce Committee; Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.); and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) say the agency must stop any plans to create “government-administered assurance labs” and “walk back support” for a model for such labs from the Coalition for Health AI.

Micky Tripathi, HHS’ assistant secretary for technology policy, was an adviser to CHAI and has signaled support for the group’s plan, which includes efforts to evaluate models based on...

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