• treadful@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Holy shit that’s a long article.

    Ahmad hopes that AI could help alleviate stress in uncertain moments. For doctors and surrogates, these decisions can be “very emotionally taxing,” Ahmad told Ars, leading many people to second-guess what the patient would choose.

    I mean, it should be, no? Just because it’s uncomfortable doesn’t mean you should just go with RNG.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    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.

    This has been a solved problem ever since medical science has been able to keep people from dying from what would have been historically fatal injuries or illnesses, wtf. Make a living will. Nobody will have to guess or make an LLM puppet make decisions for you if you just write down what you want.

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    Only if I can decide if the person who asked this fucked up question gets to live or die.