Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!cs1.wsu.EDU!cross From: cross@cs1.wsu.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Re: Liability in Expert Systems Message-ID: <8707120554.AA17072@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 10:53:43 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8707120554.AA17072 Posted: Fri Jul 10 10:53:43 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 23:38:29 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 20 Approved: ailist@stripe.sri.com Hi, I don't know about any pending cases, but readers interested in this subject should check the article by Christopher J. Gill, High Technology Law Journal, Vol 1, #2, P483-520, Fall 1986 entitled "Medical Expert Systems: Grappling with Issues of Liability." An important legal issue is whether the use of a medical expert system constitutes a product or a service. If an expert system is a product, strict liability applies whereas if it a service then a negligence standard applies. Perhaps some lawyer reading Risks or AILIST could read this article and summarize it for us. It is not easy going. ---- George - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - George R. Cross cross@cs1.wsu.edu Computer Science Department ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!egg-id!ui3!wsucshp!cs1!cross Washington State University faccross@wsuvm1.BITNET Pullman, WA 99164-1210 Phone: 509-335-6319 or 509-335-6636