Speaker Spotlight: "AI in Medicine: Legal and Ethical Issues" with Professor I. Glenn Cohen
Join the Harvard Alumni Association Speakers Bureau on Monday, November 2, 2026 at 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET. to learn from I. Glenn Cohen JD '03, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School.
From radiology to embryology to pathology to day-to-day encounters with a patient, medical AI is rapidly becoming embedded in medical practice. How should the law regulate medical AI? What does ethical use of medical AI look like? What rights should clinicians demands when hospital systems implement medical AI? This lecture furthers that conversation, covering topics such as privacy, informed consent, bias, liability, and governance of medical AI. It also discusses direct-to-patient medical AI, such as chatbots, and how they represent overlapping but distinct challenges.
I. Glenn Cohen JD '03 is the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and deputy dean at Harvard Law School. He is also the faculty director at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics. Professor Cohen holds a BA in bioethics (philosophy) and psychology from the University of Toronto and a JD from Harvard Law School. See his full biography.
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