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Title: HHS Asks All Employees To Start Using ChatGPT

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/21292...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Employees at Robert F
Kennedy Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services received an email
Tuesday morning with the subject line "AI Deployment," which told them that
ChatGPT would be rolled out for all employees at the agency. The deployment
is being overseen by Clark Minor, a former Palantir employee who's now Chief
Information Officer at HHS. "Artificial intelligence is beginning to improve
health care, business, and government," the email, sent by deputy secretary
Jim O'Neill and seen by 404 Media, begins. "Our department is committed to
supporting and encouraging this transformation. In many offices around the
world, the growing administrative burden of extensive emails and meetings can
distract even highly motivated people from getting things done. We should all
be vigilant against barriers that could slow our progress toward making
America healthy again." "I'm excited to move us forward by making ChatGPT
available to everyone in the Department effective immediately," it adds.
"Some operating divisions, such as FDA and ACF [Administration for Children
and Families], have already benefitted from specific deployments of large
language models to enhance their work, and now the rest of us can join them.
This tool can help us promote rigorous science, radical transparency, and
robust good health. As Secretary Kennedy said, 'The AI revolution has
arrived.'" [...] The email says that the rollout was being led by Minor, who
worked at the surveillance company Palantir from 2013 through 2024. It states
Minor has "taken precautions to ensure that your work with AI is carried out
in a high-security environment," and that "you can input most internal data,
including procurement sensitive data and routine non-sensitive personally
identifiable information, with confidence." It then goes on to say that
"ChatGPT is currently not approved for disclosure of sensitive personally
identifiable information (such as SSNs and bank account numbers), classified
information, export-controlled data, or confidential commercial information
subject to the Trade Secrets Act." The email does not distinguish what "non-
sensitive personally identifiable information" is. HHS did not immediately
respond to a request for comment from 404 Media. [...] The agency has also
said it plans to roll out AI through HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services that will determine whether patients are eligible to receive certain
treatments. These types of systems have been shown to be biased when they've
been tried, and result in fewer patients getting the care they need.

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