Pedram Fard and Hossein Estiri have published A National Neural Network: AI-Broadband Symbiosis as Health Infrastructure as a Milbank Quarterly opinion. The piece reads the December 2025 executive order on AI as an infrastructure measure. It proposes a Federal-Rural AI Corridor to bring clinical AI to the regions with the fewest physicians, through a federated design that keeps patient data at local facilities.

Read our summary of the proposal.

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