Hill November 29, 2023
Lydia McFarlane

Health care sector leaders urged Congress to pass regulations on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the industry based on experiences facing issues in the AI programming such as implicit bias and patient privacy.

Wednesday’s hearing on the use of AI in health care comes after tools such as ChatGPT made waves in the health care space.

Witnesses expressed concern about implicit bias in AI used in health care that could potentially discriminate against patients based on demographics.

“Generative [large language models] must be ‘trained’ on massive volumes of written language — the ultimate compendium of human experience,” said Benjamin Nguyen, senior product manager at health care company Transcarent. “It therefore inherits the inherent biases of that...

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