11/12/2026

Liability for Clinical AI: accountability with clinical authority

From the American Medical Association:

As AI assumes an expanding range of functions in clinical care, questions about responsibility for patient harm are becoming more urgent. Existing liability frameworks were not designed for technologies in which physicians, developers and deploying organizations exercise different degrees of authority and control. 

The American Medical Association is working to ensure that accountability keeps pace with advances in clinical AI. Our approach is grounded in the principle that responsibility should reflect each party's authority, access to information and ability to prevent or mitigate harm.

Read the AMA Article >