Kennedy's Pitch: AI as an Escape From Medical "Tyranny"
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Ars Technica describes as anti-vaccine, used a Make America Healthy Again event to talk about artificial intelligence. He said the Trump administration is "making it easy for every American to use AI" and claimed the technology would free Americans from the "medical tyranny" of doctors and health experts.
The frame is the notable part. Asking a machine to check advice you have already been given is one position; treating expertise itself as a form of domination is another, and it moves a dispute about evidence into a question of who has standing to tell you anything.
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The proposal gets specific elsewhere: he urged Americans to use AI for second opinions, saying it is "better informed than any doctor in the country." That is a claim about comparative accuracy, not about convenience, and it is a much bigger thing to establish.
Ars Technica also reports he suggested the technology would confirm his misinformation about vaccines and his contrarian views on public health guidance. A tool that agrees with you isn't a check on expertise; it's a louder version of the same argument.