Trump, RFK Jr. seek to relax safeguards for AI healthcare tools

Oh, brilliant. The Trump administration and RFK Jr. — the 1-2 punch of rational health policy — have decided that what AI healthcare tools really need is fewer safeguards. According to a KFF Health News report, the dynamic duo is pushing to relax the rules that might prevent your chatbot doctor from prescribing bleach or diagnosing a sprained ankle as existential dread. Because nothing says 'patient safety' quite like putting the anti-vaccine crusader in charge of medical AI oversight.

Let's be clear: the 'safeguards' they want to dismantle are the ones that require AI tools to be validated before they tell your grandmother she has cancer. RFK Jr. has been railing against 'medical tyranny' for years, and now he's found the perfect vehicle: algorithms that can hallucinate a cure for measles and prescribe it without FDA interference. It's like giving a lobotomised parrot a medical licence, but with more libertarian funding.

And why stop at healthcare? Next up: relaxing safeguards for autonomous vehicles — let's put RFK Jr. in charge of that too, because 'my body, my self-driving car' has a nice ring to it. The labs will love it: no pesky clinical trials, no evidence, just pure, unregulated AI moving fast and breaking bones. As the old saying goes, 'first, do no harm' — but that was before the Department of Deregulation got involved.