Government has slow-walked regulation of the fast-moving technology because the funding and staffing challenges facing agencies like the Food and Drug Administration in writing and enforcing rules are so vast. It’s unlikely they will catch up any time soon. That means the AI rollout in health care is becoming a high-stakes experiment in whether the private sector can help transform medicine safely without government watching.

…Advancements in AI have created big gaps in what the FDA regulates. It does nothing to review tools like chatbots, for example, and it has no authority over systems that summarize doctors’ notes and perform other critical administrative tasks.

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Reader, R. (2024, February 18). Artificial intelligence is making critical health care decisions. The sheriff is MIA. Politico. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/18/artificial-intelligence-health-care-fda-00141768