US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week told attendees at the Make America Healthy Again Summit that artificial intelligence could help address key health issues and can offer a “better-informed” second opinion than doctors, as the prominent vaccine sceptic once again railed against public health experts and COVID-era response strategies.
Speaking to Vice President JD Vance in a “fireside chat” to close out the MAHA summit, Kennedy argued AI offers the capacity to solve the “most daunting public health problems that are otherwise existential.”
Touting AI’s ability to digest thousands-page-long medical records, Kennedy claimed it can give you “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country.”
Kennedy said another change he expects AI to bring is that health policymaking will never again be dominated by public officials “who tell us ‘Trust the experts.’”
Kennedy said every American will be able to check their own medical advice and argued that AI had the capacity to “free us from medical tyranny.”
“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise. If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that,” Kennedy said.
Source: Forbes, 1 October 2026
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