The White House's AI Action Plan, released in July, mentions 'health care' only three times. But it is one of the most consequential health policies of the second Trump administration. Its sweeping ambitions for AI'rolling back safeguards, fast-tracking 'private-sector-led innovation,' and banning 'ideological dogmas such as DEI''will have long-term consequences for how medicine is practiced, how public health is governed, and who gets left behind. Already, the Trump administration has purged data from government websites, slashed funding for research on marginalized communities, and pressured government researchers to restrict or retract work that contradicts political ideology. These actions aren't just symbolic'they shape what gets measured, who gets studied, and which findings get published. Now, those same constraints are moving into the development of AI itself. Under the administration's policies, developers have a clear incentive to make design choices or pick data sets that...
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