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On Sunday night, House Republicans added language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would block all state and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years, 404 Media reports. The provision, introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, states that "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

The authors evaluated these models in four categories: the accuracy of organ and lesion volume measurements; the ability to recognize when features like lesions are present; the ability to reason based on visual information (e.g. which of two kidneys is largest); and medical reasoning (e.g. identify whether a given lesion is a benign cyst or a malignant tumor). In keeping with Betteridge's law of headlines, the authors' answer to their question "Are Vision Language Models Ready for Clinical Diagnosis?" is "No."