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Gastroenterology AI Standard of Care: Colonoscopy AI, Polyp Detection, and Liability

AI at the Scope: The New Frontier of GI Liability # Gastroenterology has become the second major clinical frontier for AI in medicine, following radiology. With multiple FDA-cleared computer-aided detection (CADe) systems now in routine use during colonoscopies, endoscopists face novel liability questions: What happens when AI misses a polyp that becomes cancer? What if AI misclassifies a polyp, leading to inadequate follow-up? And critically, does AI assistance create a new standard of care that makes non-AI colonoscopy legally indefensible?