AI Holds Great Promise for Health Care, and Trump’s Action Plan Is a Good First Step

AI holds great promise for health care, and Trump’s action plan is a good first step

The American Medical Association (AMA) has welcomed the Trump administration's AI Action Plan and believes that physicians must be full partners in the AI lifecycle to ensure that AI in health care reaches its full potential and that trust is built between patients and physicians.

White House science adviser talks AI action plan and citizen services

The White House’s top science adviser invoked the importance of citizen services globally in explaining a new AI action plan thrust to export “American AI.” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, spoke about the White House’s recently unveiled “AI Action Plan” during an event Wednesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The plan directs more than 90 federal policy actions. They …

The AI Action Plan and Federalism: A Constitutional Analysis

On July 23, the Trump administration released its long-anticipated AI Action Plan aimed at accelerating innovation and “winning the AI race” for global supremacy. A centerpiece of the plan is deregulation: removing what the White House views as domestic barriers to AI development. While the stated policy applies nationwide, its most significant impact may fall on states, where the vast majority of AI regulations currently exist. The plan’s appro…

Trump’s AI Plan Aims High, But Leaves a Gaping Hole

We’ve seen this before: fear, overregulation, and political hubris at the dawn of an economic breakthrough. Will we learn from history — or repeat its mistakes? In every era of transformation, one thing never changes: politicians panic. When the agricultural revolution spread through Europe and into the early American colonies, it upended social orders. Elites feared farmers with new tools would abandon the land. During the Industrial Revolution…

Unpacking the White House AI Action Plan with OSTP Director Michael Kratsios

Unpacking the White House AI Action Plan with OSTP Director Michael Kratsios. Source: Youtube

US AI Plan is another form of Trumpism we should reject

In a speech that should surprise no one, US President Trump recently unveiled his vision for AI that sees the US dominating global initiatives, does away with regulation, safety and copyright, and allows AI companies to steamroll labour rights and environmental protections. The US AI action plan and executive orders emboldens AI companies with aggressive, expansionist ambitions, like OpenAI, whose CEO Sam Altman has declared how AI could delete …