Politico October 4, 2024
With Sophie Gardner
Driving The Day
TOP HHS OFFICIAL ON AI USE — As the Department of Health and Human Services considers how to regulate artificial intelligence in the multibillion-dollar health care sector, Pulse spoke with one of the agency’s leading AI policy experts, Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm.
Palm discussed HHS’ plans to release a new AI strategy in January to comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI practices, how she intends to manage the more than 150 ways AI is used at the agency and what worries her the most about the technology.
The conversation, which took place after POLITICO reported that HHS is one of the biggest users of AI-related purchases in the federal government, has...