Microsoft And Federal Agencies Launch Nonprofit Supergroup To Wrangle Health AI’s Wild West

Forbes March 4, 2024
Katie Jennings

The Coalition for Health AI, which has over 1,300 members, is looking develop standards, validation labs and a national registry of health AI tools.

As Microsoft’s chief scientific officer, Eric Horvitz spends a lot of time thinking about how to balance the risks and benefits of new technologies. Explosive advancements in artificial intelligence have made this even more imperative, especially in life or death sectors like healthcare. “The stakes are so high,” Horvitz, who is also a doctor, told Forbes. “We have this combination of incredible excitement and then also mature caution.”

That’s why Microsoft has joined a nonprofit supergroup composed of private companies and public entities that aims to figure out how AI can be deployed in healthcare in...

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