Could AI become the ultimate decider for end-of-life care?
A JAMA editor's reaction to the concept? "Yikes!"
Doctors obviously lack imagination.
While the medical profession has been anguished at the prospect of their mass redundancy as a result of diagnostic machine learning, some have realised that artificial intelligence could do far more than this.
Not just doctoring or virtual counselling or radiology — it could also be used in determining the manner of someone’s death.
The headline used in a JAMA Internal Medicine article published this week explains the authors’ thought experiment: Can artificial intelligence speak for incapacitated patients at the end of life?
