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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has frequently advised Americans not to trust medical experts, said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence can offer patients “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country” and has the power to “free us from medical tyranny.” Mr. Kennedy made the comments during a “fireside chat” conversation with Vice President JD Vance at a Make America Healthy Again conference sponsored by companies that have business before his department, as well as artificial intelligence companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. (Stolberg, 9/29)

Trump administration officials mingled with insurers, corporate executives and wellness influencers at the second Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit. They discussed issues ranging from affordability, the U.S. food supply and the food pyramid, as well as the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Along with many other mainstream outlets, The Hill was not granted press credentials to attend but watched a free livestream. Here are takeaways from the event. (Weixel and Choi, 9/29)

The Make America Healthy Again movement has changed, if Tuesday’s MAHA Summit is any indication. The insurgent movement that coalesced around mistrust of the health system and corporate influence put on a summit where industry leaders promoted their work under the MAHA banner, whether as insurers controlling costs or pharma companies developing the next breakthrough. (Cueto and Payne, 9/29)

The president would not like many answers that America.gov provides. ... Largely citing figures from the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan scorekeeper, America.gov said that Mr. Trump’s signature domestic policy bill, signed into law last year, is estimated to add trillions of dollars to the national debt and cause more than 10 million people to lose their health insurance. The chatbot agreed with a statement that the law “on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer.” (Cameron, 9/29)

President Donald Trump said he was assured that companies are placing the appropriate guardrails on their models, despite a growing number of incidents where some of the most advanced AI systems escaped their testing environments and hacked into private companies and government databases. “I’m seeing tremendous self-policing,” Trump said. (Miller, Long and Dahlkamp, 9/29)

Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored. In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times. In response, OpenAI executives told the employees that the tests needed to move forward as quickly as possible to release the A.I. models on time. ... OpenAI’s models later broke out of their testing environments and attacked the A.I. start-up Hugging Face and other organizations, setting off a global debate about A.I. safety. (Frenkel, Volz and Freedman, 9/29)

Should Medicare's annual wellness visit (AWV) be less physician-driven and more artificial intelligence (AI)-driven? That's the question being asked by CMS in its proposed physician payment rule, issued this past summer. (Frieden, 9/29)

We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us. (Varón and Freedman, 9/29)

But critics worry the AI-aided program enables shoddy research. (Robertson, 9/28)