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Committee Raises AI Privacy and Biosecurity Risks; Nominee Backs Reviews and Recruiting Technical Experts
3270660 · May 8, 2025
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Senators asked Jim O'Neil about updating HIPAA for AI-era risks and about gain-of-function research and desktop gene synthesis; O'Neil supported reviews, recruiting technologists into HHS, and cautioned regulators must keep pace with technology.
Senators pressed Jim O'Neil on two intersecting concerns: how to protect medical privacy in an era of artificial intelligence and new data sources, and how to guard against risky biological research, including gains-of-function and desktop gene synthesis.
O'Neil said he…
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