The FDA has launched agentic AI capabilities for all agency staff, marking an expansion of its internal AI infrastructure. Agentic AI refers to systems that can plan, reason and carry out multi-step ...

Current and former members of the FDA told CNN about issues with the Elsa generative AI tool unveiled by the federal agency last month. Three employees said that in practice, Elsa has hallucinated ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced the launch of a new generative AI technology that agency leaders said will help its employees do their jobs more efficiently. The tool, called ...

The FDA launched Elsa, a generative AI tool designed to help employees, including scientific reviewers and investigators, work more efficiently. In a statement, the agency said the tool "modernizes ...

The FDA says it is hiring more than 1,000 new employees and rolling out a pilot communication program in an effort to speed up the review of new drugs. “FDA announced over 40 job announcements for ...

AI woes continue, and the US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) faces the same problem with "Elsa," their latest generative AI tool, which allegedly hallucinates information and misinterprets real studies.

After preparing the majority of this piece, I reached out to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, for comment. Some of his responses are included below, but he also graciously agreed to an ...

The Food and Drug Administration is set to rehire some of the staff that was let go during mass firings in the past three months. The rehires will include some food safety inspectors and some ...

The Food and Drug Administration's new AI tool — touted by Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as a revolutionary solution for shortening drug approvals — is initially ...