Sen. Cassidy cites growing AI threat to urge data and other NIH reforms

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the health committee, has issued a “white paper” that cites the emerging threats of artificial intelligence to call for broad reforms at the National Institutes of Health, including how it manages and shares data with the goal of promoting new breakthroughs in the health sciences.

“Since the enactment of 21st Century Cures, the scientific landscape has changed exponentially,” Cassidy writes in the May 9 white paper released by the Republican staff of...