Trump orders AI push for childhood cancer research
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the MAHA Commission and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to deploy artificial intelligence in diagnosing, treating and researching pediatric cancers. The order includes an immediate $50 million increase to the NIH’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative and instructs federal agencies (HHS, NIH, CMS) to fund AI‑focused proposals, use existing molecular and genetic databases to build predictive models, and accelerate clinical‑trial and care improvements for children with cancer.
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🔍 Key Facts
- President Donald Trump signed an executive order (signed in the Oval Office 'Tuesday') directing federal use of AI to fight pediatric cancers.
- The order includes a $50 million boost to the NIH Childhood Cancer Data Initiative housed at NIH.
- Named agencies/people involved: MAHA Commission (led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), White House OSTP (Michael Castillo quoted), NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.
📍 Contextual Background
- Debarment is a federal administrative process that can render an entity ineligible to receive federal grants.
- OpenAI allows users as young as 13 to sign up for ChatGPT.
- OpenAI added new parental controls to ChatGPT intended to protect young users of the platform.
- The Office for Civil Rights is an office within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services referred Harvard University to a debarment process.
- Agentic commerce describes a model in which an app (for example, ChatGPT) acts as a shopper's agent by interacting with both the buyer and the seller while the merchant processes payment and fulfills the order.
- OpenAI added an "Instant Checkout" feature to ChatGPT that lets users purchase products mentioned by the chatbot within the chat without leaving the app.