Trump officers take purpose at Coalition for Well being AI, as Amazon drops out
The Trump administration is escalating its efforts to weaken a tech industry-funded group in search of to assist form the nation’s use of synthetic intelligence in well being care.
The Coalition for Well being AI, or CHAI, is made up of a few of the nation’s greatest names in well being care and expertise, together with Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Mayo Clinic. However the administration has been more and more vocal in arguing that such {industry} giants will attempt to impede startups and competitors by extreme regulatory proposals, relatively than performing as accountable custodians of a expertise that holds each potential and dangers.
“We should not let the Coalition for Well being AI (CHAI) construct a regulatory cartel,” well being secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote this week on X, echoing a latest editorial blasting the {industry} group written by two different senior well being officers, deputy well being secretary Jim O’Neill and Meals and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary.
And because the Trump administration assaults CHAI, there’s proof that some key firms’ help for the group could also be fraying.
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