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- The Federation of State Medical Boards convened a 22-member AI workgroup in early October in Washington, D.C., uniting doctors, hospitals, a health insurer, and tech companies to shape state-level medical AI regulation.
- Anthropic is among the executives participating alongside the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association, and Elevance Health in the FSMB-led workgroup, which an FSMB spokesman said was built to balance expertise across medical regulation, AI development, care delivery, and patient safety.
- The workgroup is drafting guidelines with "particular attention … to AI tools that perform clinical functions with limited or no direct physician supervision," per FSMB president and CEO Humayun Chaudhry.
- Workgroup discussions are being kept confidential, with a draft of recommendations potentially released in "weeks to months" before being opened to public feedback and formally adopted.
- Because states individually regulate medical licensure and the practice of medicine, the workgroup's recommendations could ultimately serve as the basis for state legislation governing medical AI.
Why it matters: State medical boards license doctors and police the practice of medicine in every U.S. state, so the FSMB's 22-member workgroup is building a template that could spread state by state—with one major AI developer (Anthropic) helping shape guardrails on AI tools that diagnose or treat patients with minimal physician oversight.
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