President Biden Issues Executive Order on AI Tackle Emerging Risks in Health Care and Life Sciences

October 30, 2023

United StatesU.S. Executive Branch

Summary

On October 30, 2023, the Biden Administration released an expansive executive order (AI) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, which issues directives related to the use of AI across several sectors, including health care. The EO tasks the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) with promoting responsible AI innovation, development, and use, including addressing the potential risks associated with AIenabled technologies in health care and use of AI in drug development. The EO directs HHS to establish an AI Task Force, develop an AI Assurance Policy, consider actions to advance compliance with nondiscrimination laws, create an AI Safety Program, prepare a strategy for use of AI in drug development and issue grants and awards to encourage AI innovation and support responsible AI development and use. The EO should bolster the efforts the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already undertaken to regulate AI and instructs HHS to take on the use of AI in technologies not under FDA’s purview.

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