When AI misses the diagnosis, who gets sued?

We need this <liability> conversation to be MUCH MUCH louder, writes Michele Pfannenstiel, DVM. What follows is a thought-filled, researched treatise that raises concerns about what AI can do, how it is validated and who is responsible if AI can’t.

Pfannenstiel is not anti-AI. She wants new tools to work. But wanting them to work is not the same as knowing they work, and right now, most of us cannot tell the difference because we do not know what questions to ask, she says.

Source: Michele Pfannenstiel DVM, LinkedIn, March 30, 2026. Link.

Your name is on the record, you get sued. You need to know your <AI> tools before they outrun you and it comes back to bite you.” – Michele Pfannenstiel, DVM