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WASHINGTON – The dismissals at the Food and Drug Administration weekend seem to have struck the AI ​​and the digital health staff particularly hard at a time when federal supervisors come to mind to keep an eye on hospitals and insurers that embrace the technologies.

The endings, with their potential to stop or bump AI regulation, have caused an alarm, both inside and outside the desk, according to people interviewed by Stat. The use of AI in health care has been swollen over the past decade, with doctors adjusting the technology to better detect the disease or to go through different treatment plans.

The step of the Trump government to clean up employees with valuable AI expertise is especially striking, since it invests massively in the technology itself. Shortly after his inauguration, Trump announced an investment of $ 500 billion in the American AI infrastructure. Elon Musk, billionaire and leader of the cost-saving American doge service, has driven with the help of AI to identify waste and excess of the government. Technology companies that are looking for lucrative government contracts.