aceGreater adoption of artificial intelligent tools requires resolution of the liability conundrum
Clinician-facing artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tools can benefit patient care, but also have potential to cause physical or psychological patient harm. Opinions differ among stakeholders on who should be held responsible when such events occur - the clinician, the developer or vendor, the deploying institution, or some combination. Under current Australian tort law, clinicians remain primarily responsible for patient harm, even if software is shown to be flawed. As a result, clinicians may avoid or delay…
Under current Australian tort law clinicians stay mainly responsible for patient harm even when software is flawed, which may lead them to avoid or delay AI tools that could help patients.
The source is a short abstract of a commentary-style proposal; it gives no empirical data on how liability concerns actually change clinician use of AI, and the proposed framework is not shown to be implemented.
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- Peer-reviewedAustralian Health Review2026-11-05
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2281, v1: “Greater adoption of artificial intelligent tools requires resolution of the liability conundrum.” Truvace, 2026-10-27. /record/TRV-2026-2281 (accessed at citation time). sha256 ef4836a59ccbca2a…
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