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AI for Surrogate Decision Making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender
Surrogate decision making has some issues. Surrogates often either don't know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. After making decisions, many surrogates experience regret, PTSD, and depressive symptoms. Can we do better?
Or, to phrase the question for 2024, "Can AI do better?" Follow that path and you arrive at a potentially terrifying scenario: using AI for surrogate decision making. What?!? When Teva Brender and Brian Block first approached me about writing a thought piece about this…
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