
The TechDental Podcast · 2026-09-01 · 33 min
When an AI tool contributes to a clinical decision and a patient is harmed, who is liable? The clinician who acted on it, the organisation that deployed it, or the company that built it? Right now, English law cannot give a clean answer, and every organisation adopting AI is operating inside that uncertainty. In this episode of The TechDental Podcast, Dr Randeep Singh Gill sits down with Robert Kellar KC, a barrister at 1 Crown Office Row specialising in clinical negligence, professional discipline and regulation, public law and personal injury. Robert has spent recent years litigating high-value clinical and dental negligence claims, and was writing and speaking about AI and legal liability for medical practitioners before most people had heard of ChatGPT. This is a high-level conversation about legal governance and the reality of AI liability in regulated professions. The case study is dentistry. The framework applies to medicine, law, finance, and any high-stakes field where a regulated human is accountable for a decision an algorithm increasingly shapes.