"Last week, during a stop in Nashville on his Take Back Your Health tour, the Health and Human Services secretary brought up the technology between condemning ultra-processed foods and urging Americans to eat protein. "My agency is now leading the federal government in driving AI into all of our activities," he declared. An army of bots, Kennedy said, will transform medicine, eliminate fraud, and put a virtual doctor in everyone's pocket."
"Late last month, HHS published an inventory of roughly 400 ways in which it is using the technology. At face value, the applications do not seem to amount to an "AI revolution." The agency is turning to or developing chatbots to generate social-media posts, redact public-records requests, and write "justifications for personnel actions." One usage of the technology that the agency points to is simply "AI in Slack," a reference to the workplace-communication platform."
""The AI revolution has arrived," he told Congress in May. The next month, the FDA launched Elsa, a custom AI tool designed to expedite drug reviews and assist with agency work. In December, HHS issued an "AI Strategy" outlining how it intends to use the technology to modernize the department, aid scientific research, and advance Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again campaign."
HHS is pushing AI across federal health agencies, launching tools and encouraging staff to experiment with commercial chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. The FDA deployed Elsa to accelerate drug reviews, and HHS released an AI Strategy to modernize operations, support scientific research, and advance a health-focused agenda. HHS published an inventory of roughly 400 AI uses, including chatbots that draft social-media posts, redact public-records requests, and prepare personnel justifications. Some implementations are modest—examples include 'AI in Slack'—while others target clinical transformation, fraud reduction, and virtual diagnostic access.
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