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Califf warns AI in health care ‘overhyped’

On a makeshift stage in a Midtown Manhattan office earlier this week,former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf struck a measured tone about the potential for artificial intelligence in health care. Asked whether the technology was overhyped he said it was. “I hear way too much about the money. I’m not hearing a lot of human values coming through discussions,” he said. Adding:

“Almost all of the technology is being applied to optimizing the financial status of healthcare delivery entities or companies that are making medical

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