Kaiser Health News reports on the move by the Senate to regulate AI in Health Care.
The Senate Finance Committee contemplated the future yesterday: artificial intelligence and its potential applications to health care. And it turns out the future looks an awful lot like the past and present: Democrats want regulations. And the industry wants money. He expressed outrage at the results of 2019 research led by Ziad Obermeyer, a University of California at Berkeley associate professor, who found that one commercial algorithm recommended less health care for Black patients based on historical cost data. “How does such a flawed system make its way into general use?” Wyden said. “Nobody’s watching. No guardrails. No guardrails to protect the patients from flawed algorithms and AI systems.” It’s unclear whether this algorithm is still being marketed, Obermeyer testified later. The hearing marked Congress’s latest attempt to wrap its head around the newest AI systems, which can mimic some forms of human reasoning to make predictions and calculations, or generate text and images that look deceptively human-created. Wyden touted his “Algorithmic Accountability Act,” a bill intended to force companies to assess their own products and require the Federal Trade Commission to collect and report data on AI systems. But Republicans indicated that they don’t want to move quickly on the emerging technology.
The problem is, as we have noted, there is no agreed to definition of "AI". As as usual Congress is not the least bit concerned about regulating something they are totally ignorant of. After-all let the Chevron precedent allow the bureaucrats take of as they so choose. How can one regulate something that is undefined? Each purported AI technique is vastly different starting with the training sets.
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