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Inside the Trump-backed push to bring AI doctors into American medicine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/04/inside-trump-backed-push-bring-ai-doctors-into-american-medicine/-snip-
Gleason is not your typical mom. The leader of the U.S. DOGE Service, which she took over from billionaire Elon Musk, Gleason is now tasked by the Trump administration with bringing AI into the health care system as an adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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They have backed a controversial three-month-old pilot program in Utah that allows AI chatbots to refill prescriptions instantly. (Currently humans oversee the chatbot’s decisions, but there are plans to make the program fully autonomous). The Cicero Institute, a think tank funded by right-leaning tech entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale, is pushing a bill that would allow states to create similar pilots.
Officials are taking steps to integrate AI into the health care system. The administration plans to offer more than $50 million in research awards to developers of conversational AI software that can deliver cardiovascular care, so that when a person calls a medical provider with symptoms of a heart attack, a chatbot might field the call. (Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, start-ups Certuma and Doctronic and several top-tier universities are providing support to the program.)
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And in internal discussions, administration figures are working a pathway to regulate independent AI doctors, likening the change to the decades-long process that moved self-driving cars from test tracks to cities across the United States, Gleason said in an interview.
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Gleason is not your typical mom. The leader of the U.S. DOGE Service, which she took over from billionaire Elon Musk, Gleason is now tasked by the Trump administration with bringing AI into the health care system as an adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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They have backed a controversial three-month-old pilot program in Utah that allows AI chatbots to refill prescriptions instantly. (Currently humans oversee the chatbot’s decisions, but there are plans to make the program fully autonomous). The Cicero Institute, a think tank funded by right-leaning tech entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale, is pushing a bill that would allow states to create similar pilots.
Officials are taking steps to integrate AI into the health care system. The administration plans to offer more than $50 million in research awards to developers of conversational AI software that can deliver cardiovascular care, so that when a person calls a medical provider with symptoms of a heart attack, a chatbot might field the call. (Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, start-ups Certuma and Doctronic and several top-tier universities are providing support to the program.)
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And in internal discussions, administration figures are working a pathway to regulate independent AI doctors, likening the change to the decades-long process that moved self-driving cars from test tracks to cities across the United States, Gleason said in an interview.
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Bezos has invested in some of this, and he's very pro-AI. So this article, while helpful in explaining why the Trump regime is pushing to get AI doctors into medicine, buries the most serious objections to it in the last half of a long article, and then follows those objections with four pro-AI paragraphs comparing AI doctors to driverless cars that "can be as safe as a human driver."
Except driverless cars aren't.
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