US based companies have been shipping AI/ML tools for nearly 30 years at this point, which undermines your argument. The biggest problems are data access (big)

US based companies have been shipping AI/ML tools for nearly 30 years at this point, which undermines your argument. The biggest problems are data access (big) and data quality/labelling quality (bigger). Medical conservatism is a real issue, but nowhere near as big as those. There isn't a big cabal trying to keep AI out, it just hasn't worked very well so far. FDA is reasonably responsive (for an agency like that) these days, and has been doing planning for more of this sort of tech: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/software-medical-device-samd/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-software-medical-device https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/software-medical-device-...