The Trump administration is escalating its efforts to weaken a tech industry-funded group seeking to help shape the nation’s use of artificial intelligence in health care.
The Coalition for Health AI, or CHAI, is made up of some of the country’s biggest names in health care and technology, including Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Mayo Clinic. But the administration has been increasingly vocal in making clear that it believes such industry giants, rather than acting as responsible custodians of a technology that holds both potential and risks, will try to dominate it instead.
“We must not let the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) build a regulatory cartel,” health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote this week on X , echoing a recent editorial blasting the industry group written by two