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Opinion: What Facebook’s public scrutiny can teach us about artificial intelligence in health care

Health care leaders should have been taking notes during Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Senate grilling Monday.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the Senate on Monday in Washington.

During Monday’s grilling of Mark Zuckerberg in a Senate hearing that lasted for more than three hours, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin asked the Facebook founder and CEO if he would be comfortable sharing the name of the hotel he was staying at in Washington. The question caught Zuckerberg off guard.

“Umm. … Uh. No,” Zuckerberg eventually answered, after thinking about it for some time.

As this question illustrates, the recent firestorm over Facebook’s involvement in the is less about the data breach and more for clinical decision-making.

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