Overview

• Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill announced immediate availability in a departmentwide email with access via go.hhs.gov/chatgpt using government credentials.
• ChatGPT received an authority to operate at the FISMA moderate level, and CIO Clark Minor is overseeing use in a high‑security environment.
• Use is barred for sensitive PII, protected health information, classified material, export‑controlled data, and confidential commercial information, and staff were urged to verify outputs against original sources.
• HHS framed the move as expanding access under the AI Action Plan, noting FDA and ACF have already used large language models for tasks such as summarizing long documents.
• Coverage highlighted Minor's prior work at Palantir and reported potential CMS applications for eligibility decisions, with concerns raised about bias in such systems.