By Emily Mullin
Publication Date: 2026-02-04 10:00:00
The US Department The Health and Human Services Department is developing a generative artificial intelligence tool to find patterns in data reported to a national vaccine surveillance database and generate hypotheses about the adverse effects of vaccines. This emerges from an inventory of all use cases the authority had for AI in 2025 published last week.
The HHS document says the tool has not yet been deployed, and an AI inventory report from last year shows it has been in development since late 2023. But experts fear that the predictions it generates could be used by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to promote his anti-vaccine agenda.
A long-time vaccine critic, Kenedy upended the childhood vaccination schedule during his year in office, removing several shots from a list of recommended vaccinations for all children, including those for Covid-19, influenza, hepatitis A and B, meningococcal disease, rotavirus and respiratory syncytial virus, or…
