Algorithm Has No Medical License
Legal accountability: who answers when AI errs, the physician, the hospital or the vendor; a parallel with the Nuremberg Trials.
Starting from the fact that an algorithm holds no medical license and cannot be sued, this chapter faces head-on the question of legal responsibility when an AI makes a mistake in medicine: how far the physician answers, how far the institution answers, and how far the technology vendor answers. In a deliberately strong historical parallel, the authors turn to the Nuremberg Trials to discuss why responsibility cannot be outsourced to a machine, and why this chain of accountability must be designed before the first incident, not after it.