End-of-life: The one decision AI cannot predict
02/13/24 at 03:00 AM
End-of-life: The one decision AI cannot predict
Forbes, by Dr. Tal Patalon, MD, LLB, MBA; 2/10/24
We often talk about personalized medicine; we hardly ever talk about personalized death. ... When training an algorithm, data scientists usually need a “ground truth” to base their algorithm on, often an objective unequivocal metric. ... However, with end-of-life decisions, such as do-not-attempt-resuscitation (as pointedly exemplified in the New England Journal of Medicine), what is the objective truth against which we train or measure the performance of the algorithm?