The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce our 2027 Annual Conference, Generative AI in Healthcare: Law and Regulation. Generative AI –- artificial intelligence designed to produce output, such as text or images, that normally require human intelligence — has become a…
In May, Pennsylvania’s State Board of Medicine filed a lawsuit in the state’s Commonwealth Court against Character Technologies seeking to prevent it from engaging in unauthorized medical practice. The alleged “practitioner,” however, was not a physician or even a human being. It was a chatbot named Emilie.
Berkeley Law Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Director Vincent Joralemon recently sat down with Sofia Palmieri, a health law scholar working at the intersection of medicine, artificial intelligence, and regulation on both sides of the Atlantic.
Federal and state departments are rapidly expanding their use of artificial intelligence, and healthcare agencies are no exception.
Recently, Anthropic unveiled an artificial intelligence model with a tantalizing promise: tools that could help researchers design drugs 10 times faster than current methods.
In January 2026, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health. OpenAI promises ChatGPT Health will help users clarify medical concepts, understand test results, prepare for appointments, and explore healthcare and wellness strategies — all while leveraging user-uploaded health records.
When AI chatbots are asked about mixing substances, managing withdrawal, or reducing overdose risk, they increasingly provide substantive guidance.
As part of a recent effort to simplify and harmonize its digital framework, the European Union (EU) is considering two interlinked regulatory proposals that could fundamentally reshape the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical devices.
Quantum technology is increasingly described as the telescope of the 21st century: a scientific instrument that expands what humans can observe, simulate, and engineer.
In this webinar, speakers will describe the international legal, regulatory, and ethical frameworks governing applications of AI in health care. They will compare approaches, discussing the opportunities and challenges, as well as the need for transparency, accountability, and guiding ethical principles in developing AI systems in health care. Panelists This event is organized by the…
