Republican lawmakers are sharply criticizing the Food and Drug Administration’s relationship with a nonprofit group seeking to create a network of laboratories to test artificial intelligence products used in health care.
In a letter sent Tuesday, the lawmakers asserted that the agency’s budding partnership with the nonprofit Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) will embed a “clear conflict of interest” into the process of scrutinizing AI tools. The letter points out that the organization is composed of technology companies such as Microsoft and Google, as well as large health care systems that incubate AI businesses.
Troy Tazbaz, director of the FDA’s Digital Health Center of Excellence, serves on CHAI’s board as a federal liaison.
