Computers to make end-of-life choices?
Posted on March 13, 2007 by Mark Baard
Terrifying idea, especially if doctors and governments are able to use a computer model to justify going against family wishes.
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Bioethicist David Wendler and colleagues from the US National Institutes of Health developed a computer-based algorithm that promises to predict wishes of incapacitated patients, by incorporating patients’ medical history and bio-psycho-social aspects, and extracting wish data for patients in similar circumstances.
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