How Trump’s approach to regulating AI in health care could diverge from Biden’s

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A lot has happened with artificial intelligence since President-elect Donald Trump was last in the White House.

Nudged into action by the advent of generative AI, the Biden administration has spent the past year rushing to set up guardrails for the technology’s use in health care. It reorganized its health agencies, launched a task force to consider regulatory changes, and promised to set up mechanisms to monitor safety risks and potential bias.

In the wake of Tuesday’s election, the dawn of a second Trump term now poses a fundamental question: Will all of that now go away in favor of a hands-off approach?

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Casey Ross
Chief Investigative Reporter, Data & Technology
Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy.
Mario Aguilar
Health Tech Correspondent
Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter.