More Staff Needed to Best Integrate Predictive and Generative AI: Califf

The FDA will have to exponentially ramp up its hiring to properly understand and regulate quickly developing AI and the many ways it’s poised to change development of drugs and devices, said FDA Commissioner Robert Califf.

“We’d have to hire three or four times as many people to take on what’s about to come on,” said Califf, speaking at the Alliance for a Stronger FDA’s webinar on Wednesday.

Califf was referring to predictive AI, which uses large data repositories to recognize patterns across time. He was also referring to generative data, which involves algorithms imbedded in devices that accrue data and experience, and change over time according to what they learn, “which means you’re not just approving something like a drug that’s going to be the same drug 10 years later,” said Califf.

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