Liability and Standard of Care in AI-Driven Psychiatric Practice: European Viewpoint
Unlabelled AI is increasingly incorporated into psychiatric triage, risk prediction, passive monitoring, clinical documentation, and patient-facing conversational systems. These applications may improve access, continuity, efficiency, and pattern recognition, but they also redistribute epistemic authority and complicate responsibility when harm occurs. European regulation is developed in relation to market access, data governance, risk management, and product safety, yet remains fragmented regarding civil liabil…
European regulation governs market access and data but remains fragmented on civil liability, organizational negligence and the psychiatric standard of care, leaving responsibility unclear when AI-assisted psychiatric care causes harm.
The augmented-clinician model and layered accountability are normative proposals rather than settled European legal standards, and their real-world effects have not yet been empirically evaluated.
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- Peer-reviewedJournal of Medical Internet Research2026-10-05
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-1863, v1: “Liability and Standard of Care in AI-Driven Psychiatric Practice: European Viewpoint.” Truvace, 2026-10-18. /record/TRV-2026-1863 (accessed at citation time). sha256 2abb87b4cb1e56b6…
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