Tuesday, November 17, 2026
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM CET
Human Error and Artificial Error in Medicine
About this event
A dedicated session at the Academie Nationale de Medecine asking whether the concept of error still applies when a machine is wrong, with speakers from Sorbonne Universite, the CNRS and French health law.
A dedicated afternoon session at the Academie Nationale de Medecine on what happens to the idea of medical error once part of the decision is made by a machine.
The session is introduced by Pierre Le Coz of the Academie. Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave speaks on error, fault and chance in the age of AI, separating the legal categories that malpractice frameworks depend on and that autonomous systems blur. Isabelle Bloch of Sorbonne Universite and the CNRS asks directly whether we should still be calling it error when the machine is wrong, given that a model failure has a different structure from a lapse of human attention. Ali Benmakhlouf contributes a philosophical treatment of error, and Gerard Cheron draws on the established literature of human medical error. Catherine Adamsbaum concludes.
The session is organised by Pierre Le Coz and Catherine Adamsbaum and runs from 14:00 to 17:00 at the Academie on Rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement.
No fee is stated on the listing. Academie sessions are normally open to attend, but confirm access conditions in advance.
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Foundation attached to France's national academy of medicine, running public scientific sessions including on artificial intelligence in healthcare.