Senator wants Google to answer for accuracy, ethics of generative AI tool

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, wrote a letter to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, on Aug. 8, seeking clarity into the technology developer’s Med-PaLM 2, an artificial intelligence chatbot, and how it’s being deployed and trained in healthcare settings.

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, Warner expresses concerns about some news reports highlighting inaccuracies in the technology, and he asks Pichai to answer a series of…