For more than a decade, researchers have wondered whether artificial intelligence could help predict what incapacitated patients might want when doctors must make life-or-death decisions on their behalf.
It remains one of the most high-stakes questions in health care AI today. But as AI improves, some experts increasingly see it as inevitable that digital “clones” of patients could one day aid family members, doctors, and ethics boards in making end-of-life decisions that are aligned with a patient’s values and goals.
Ars spoke with experts conducting or closely monitoring this research who confirmed that no hospital has yet deployed so-called “AI surrogates.” But AI researcher Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad is aiming to change that, taking the first steps toward piloting AI surrogates at a US medical facility.
I'm am RN and I'm a DNR. I'm psych now but when I was in school I sat 1:1 with patients who for whatever reason couldn't cooperate with care (suicide watch, dementia, delirium, etc). I think if you're going to use your POA powers to force your loved one to receive care they don't want, you should have to stand at the foot of the bed and watch and listen while we do it. If you can't stomach them screaming then you shouldn't have the right to sign off on it.