Signal Inferring a patient's treatment wishes from accumulated personal data

Summary

This signal concerns AI-assisted advance care planning. Researchers are developing an artificial intelligence tool that uses a person's accumulated personal data to suggest what medical treatment that patient would likely prefer. The examples include decisions in the event of brain death. Sitra cites an MIT Technology Review article from August 2024 asking whether AI could help with difficult and distressing end-of-life decisions. Personal data would be used to stand in for a patient's voice when they cannot speak for themselves. Sitra includes it among signals behind an imagined future column on dying and the afterlife.