After laying off thousands of HHS workers, firing America’s top vaccine experts, scaring people away from using Tylenol, and hiring a CDC director who has no medical training whatsoever, health czar Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is casting about for new ways to “improve” America’s healthcare system. The solution he’s come up with? Figure out how AI can make everything better.

Kennedy doesn’t seem to know how AI can make healthcare better, which is probably why his agency is holding a competition that will give money to whoever can figure it out. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would be holding what it calls the Caregiving Artificial Intelligence Prize Competition. The point of the competition is to “fund and recognize innovators” who develop tools that

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