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But three of those FDA employees told CNN that Elsa just makes up nonexistent studies, something commonly referred to in AI ...
Insiders tell CNN the FDA’s AI is “hallucinating” studies and can’t access key documents. Agency leaders insist the AI is ...
Insiders at the Food and Drug Administration are ringing alarm bells over the agency's use of an AI to fast-track drug ...
The federal agency introduced Elsa last month, boasting about the AI tool's ability to increase efficiency at the FDA.
FDA officials say the assistant is flawed, just as the Trump administration stresses AI adoption in healthcare.
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AI at the FDA: help or hindrance?

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is changing the complexion of the regulatory approval process for medical devices.
There’s no questioning that AI should have governance and guardrails. As much good as it can bring, it also heightens risk.
The FDA's generative AI, Elsa, has a massive hallucination problem, according to the agency's employees themselves.
Hallucinations are a known problem with generative AI models—and Elsa is no different, according to Jeremy Walsh, the head of ...
With reports that FDA’s AI Elsa is “confidently hallucinating” studies that don’t exist, the use of AI to streamline drug ...
Despite ambitions to streamline regulatory review, FDA’s Elsa platform has been prone to hallucinations, prompting internal scrutiny and questions about AI reliability and governance.
Y ou'd have to be a special kind of Luddite to think that artificial intelligence won't change health care. The word ...