In directives to federal agencies, Trump charts a different course for AI

Casey Ross covers the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy.

Brittany Trang, Ph.D., is a health tech reporter at STAT and writes the AI Prognosis newsletter. Follow her on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can reach Brittany on Signal at btrang.01.

Upon taking office, President Donald Trump promised a new approach to the government’s policies on artificial intelligence, issuing a seven-paragraph order that was short on…