AI Use Touted as Top Goal for Transportation Department Nominee

President Donald Trump‘s pick for a top Transportation Department post told state officials Tuesday the agency wants to use artificial intelligence to predict car crashes and boost driver safety.

“This is the first year, 2026, that we’ve actually been in a situation where AI has now been unleashed in a way that can be actually helpful to us without a lot of the hallucinogenic activity,” Seval Oz, a former tech executive and sister of Mehmet Oz—the longtime TV host who now leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—said at an event hosted by the American Association of State ...