STAT+: Coalition for Health AI faces escalating attacks by Trump officials, loss of founding member Amazon

The Trump administration is escalating its efforts to weaken a tech industry-funded group seeking to help shape the nation’s use of artificial intelligence in health care.

The Coalition for Health AI, or CHAI, is made up of some of the country’s biggest names in health care and technology, including Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Mayo Clinic. But the administration has been increasingly vocal in arguing that such industry giants will try to impede startups and competition through excessive regulatory proposals, rather than acting as responsible custodians of a technology that holds both potential and risks.

“We must not let the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) build a regulatory cartel,” health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote this week on X, echoing a recent editorial blasting the industry group written by two other senior health officials, deputy health secretary Jim O’Neill and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary.

And as the Trump administration attacks CHAI, there’s evidence that some key companies’ support for the group may be fraying. 

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