The man behind health AI assurance efforts
Politico December 16, 2024
Driving the Day
WOOING GOP ON AI — The government can’t ensure artificial intelligence in health care is safe.
Dr. Brian Anderson, whose experience working long hours as a family doctor for low-income immigrants in Massachusetts inspired him to work on technology to make caring for patients easier, says he can.
Anderson’s Coalition for Health AI, an alliance of tech giants and major hospital systems, plans to launch quality assurance labs to vet AI tools that would effectively entrust the private sector with vetting the technology in the absence of government action, POLITICO’s Ruth Reader reports.
Anderson just has to convince President-elect Donald Trump. Trump’s endorsement could effectively establish the trajectory of AI regulation in health care going forward, ceding...